When it comes to Pakistani surnames, there are no official statistics that can establish their popularity ranking. One reason being that surnames in Pakistan differ based on ethnicity and caste. Regardless of this, there are many Pakistani surnames commonly heard in pop culture, academics, business, politics, science, and sports. All have fascinating connections to both […]

Etymology, or the study of the origins of words, is quite a fascinating field. Within this field is the more specific study of names, or onomastics. Like languages, names have developed throughout history through various influences, be it social-economic factors, migration, occupations, wars and conquering, shifting of empires, and more.  Nowadays, giving a name is […]

Ah, l’amour! Love! Western culture is obsessed with love stories, from forbidden love to intense friendships that redefine our ideas of the forms love may take. Books, television, and cinema — even music — have taken advantage of the many stock love story formulas out there, but those story plots didn’t come out of thin […]

This is a meant to be a fun opinion piece to spark your imagination, submitted by thinkers in our community. The supporting theory for Terrestrial Extras names a new genus and species to the family of hominids – Nativus coniunctus. Terrestrial Extras are the next logical stage in the evolution of hominids – and although Terrestrial […]

This is a meant to be a fun opinion piece to spark your imagination, submitted by thinkers in our community. Because Terrestrial Extras closely resemble modern-day Homo Sapiens, and because they are believed to be the next species of human life on earth, Terrestrial Extra researchers have given the Linnaean classification to the family of […]