According to a recent study, in the highest-grossing 100 films of 2012, 70 percent of the speaking roles belonged to men.
http://www.vulture.com/2011/11/usc-study-confirms-gender-inequality-in-film.html… Read More
A lot of people are freaked out by bugs. You may be one of these people. Hollywood has made a lot of movies that capitalize on people’s fears. I’m working on a book about insects and their effect on human… Read More
Because decent sanitation was virtually nonexistent during the Civil War, scouts could generally find out the location of the enemy by smelling them. One Union scout remarked that “the smell simply indicated the presence of the rebel army in the neighborhood.”