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 […]

Expecting a baby and looking for a classic, retro name? As we begin the 2020’s, try taking a look back at the roaring 20’s for baby names and inspiration. Here are 200 common male and female names used throughout the 1920’s, listed in order of most to least popular, as recorded by the United States […]

First and last names have obvious uses, but why do we use a middle name? Historically the reason why a person has a middle name is linked with how the middle name itself was chosen. The ancient Romans are believed to be the first to use three names, but it wasn’t the same as middle names today. Roman “Middle” Names Karen […]