Author: Felicity
When you start watching this video it seems to show yet another everyday high school dance-off. The first guy throws down some awesome breakdance moves as his opponent, a geeky-looking scrawny kid, stands by watching. This first kid has his audience of high schoolers eating out of his hand. Surely there can only be one winner? But then, unexpectedly, the scrawny kid flips into his own, mesmerizing routine. He b-boys around the first guy with incredible skill, as the gathered throng go absolutely wild! Seriously, he busts out moves that wouldn’t have looked out of place on the Bronx streets…
Fisherman Johnny Beau was going about his daily business, thirty miles off the coast of New York, when he came across the carcass of a 40 foot whale. To make things even more interesting, he also noticed that a group of 12 foot Great White Sharks were feasting on the mammoth whale. Johnny immediately whipped out his GoPro camera and captured some incredible underwater footage of the sharks feeding on the carcass. You can see the devastating bite marks on the body of the whale, which are a testament to the Great White’s vicious jaw. The video also shows them…
Few would think that there were any philosophical underpinnings to martial arts. It’s just people fighting, right?! Indeed, I doubt that, for example, Kickboxing lies on any grand metaphysical foundations. I can’t imagine Jean-Claude Van Damme was channeling Arthur Schopenhauer or Immanuel Kant when he was running riot in Universal Soldier. However, things are different when it comes to Kung Fu. The ancient Chinese martial art is based on, and inspired by, the country’s grand philosophical traditions. it’s most famous proponent, Bruce Lee, was influenced by Taoist philosophy, which instructs its followers to live in harmony with the ways of…
When Charity Stewart Robinson decided to take her family to the rodeo, she couldn’t have imagined what was about to unfold. As the family watched the entertainment, Charity’s son, Lincoln, who suffers from a challenging disability, approached a stranger in a cowboy hat. The man talked to Lincoln and played with him. Touched by the stranger’s act of kindness, Charity took to Facebook to praise him. Charity wrote: “Dear stranger next to us at the rodeo, When my son came up to you and grabbed your arm, you didn’t know he used to be terrified of people. When he talked…