Dancing. Who needs it, right?
As someone who used to have two left feet waaaaay back when, I can empathize with those of you who hate dancing.
But, in fact, it’s a necessary life skill. Dancing, in almost any form, can aid you in almost every situation.

Have you ever seen a spy movie/action movie where they’re not [...]

Productivity. Progress. Working under pressure. Goal-setting.
These are the skills that a month of novel writing will sharpen and perfect. Even if you’re not a writer, and you don’t plan on becoming one, spending a little alone time with your imagination for a month benefits you more than you can believe. As a novelist myself, 50,000 [...]

When I say ‘CIA’, what do you think of? Gun-toting trench-coat clad figures stepping out of a fog? Government employees? Long coats and stern faces? Dark sunglasses?
Clam chowder?
Or what about artisan bread? You see, those last two are exactly what the CIA is about. Or, The Culinary Institute of America, as it’s called.
The acronym ‘CIA’ [...]

You’ve heard of communism right? Very popular in Russia and a few other countries. Now here’s something slightly less known: Marxism. This is a concept very harshly shown in the book “We”, by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
It was created by a man named Carl Marx. He dreamed of a perfect society where no one was rich, no [...]

Okay , I know that this month’s theme is health ,but I can’t think of anything health related; other then I got two shots and my band aids were flipping sweet! Anyways so instead of doing health I’ve decided to inform you of the future of Aaron Gillespie, undoubtedly the greatest musician ever!
You may be [...]

Things have been pretty busy for me lately. No lie. I’m not going to go into too much detail, but let’s say it involves lots of time management, organizing, and not enough time to write.
‘Oh no’! You must be saying, ‘The Nearby Future isn’t going on a hiatus, is it?’.
Not quite. Posts are only going [...]

There’s an unstable dictator with access to long range missiles and the media is still going on about Micheal Jackson.
But maybe the reason they seem to be so blatantly ignorant of the North Korean crisis going on is because the government is concealing the situation with extreme success.
When the CIA fails, the media and the [...]

The Media loves a good ghost story. They love nothing more than to lure people into their inky clutches and scare them silly with apocalyptic promises and new and improved weight loss tactics.
This week, Yahoo!’s helping of Doom included a solar eclipse that threatened to throw the world into turmoil because science and superstition isn’t [...]

We here at the Nearby Future pride ourselves in dramatic comebacks. This latest comeback now includes a video.

On July 4th family, friends, and relatives will be celebrating the United State’s independence from Britain, although we all just like cooking hot dogs on the grill, maybe getting a nice tan in the sun, and watching the fireworks at night. This was also the day when Continential Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
But you [...]

After a flurry of google searches and a tip from Nero, this issue has been brought to my attention. And clearly, it needs to be brought to the nation’s attention. I have found a grand total of TWO articles detailing some news that I find very disturbing:
North Korea may be firing a missile at Hawaii [...]

My goal is to live forever.
So far so good!
In all seriousness, a long, healthy life is an admirable goal. No, it’s more than admirable- it’s the ultimate goal. The goal of all goals. It’s the one mission that everyone subconsciously strives for.
Is YOUR goal to live forever? Well then stop searching for the fountain of [...]

In any disaster movie, traffic is ALWAYS awful. People freaking out, trying to get somewhere, and the highways are backed  up for miles.
Tips:

Back roads are your friends! Out of the way roads can help you get somewhere more quickly than the clogged freeways. Just watch out for gathering zombies!
Don’t waste any time- get to where [...]

Cake is awesome. Sure, the processed flour turns to sugar in your bloodstream. Sure, as a result of that your fat metabolism is slowed down. Despite all that, I love cake as much as the next person.
Why? Well, our culture has turned cake into the official birthday food! You never see balloons and smart aleck [...]

It is June…and the theme of the month is Apocalypse (a.k.a. “the end of the world)! I was just randomly Googling “Apocalypse” and I happened to come around to this website www.apocalypse2012.com. Personally, I do not believe the world is going to end in 3 short years, however, I was intrigued by this website and [...]

This tip comes from my favorite Twilight Zone episode, “Time Enought at Last”. In the episode, the main character is the last person on Earth after a nuclear attack. This is good news for him though, because now he has enough time to read. But then, at the very end of the episode, he breaks [...]

If you keep up with the television show American Idol, you would have already known that Kris Allen won the title as the “American Idol”. Of course I do not agree with this. I started writing a whole entire article saying why Kris Allen did not deserve it and analyzing every little detail. I got [...]

Inevitably the end of the world is going to come. And the end of the world calls for elaborate and questionably legal maneuvers to survive! …for a little while, anyways.
Whether the threat may be from flesh eating zombies, natural disasters, creepy religious cults launching a terrorism attack, nuclear bombs, or war, there is one place [...]

Today, Wednesday, April 22, is national Earth Day. This is what The Nearby Future is all about, saving the planet! We are all about protecting the future, the years to come, whether we are alive or dead. Our kids and generations to come are all affected by our every action and move. This day is [...]

Some days we win. Some days we lose. Sometimes both happen in the same day and we get handed a blended mix of things to deal with.
You’ve felt this way more often recently. The economy is not everyone’s friend, and it’s a trying time for all.
What’s this? Oh! I know! Inspirational story time with Rika!
Today [...]

Hannah Montana: The Movie. Wow…what an original name for a movie title. Anyways, this weekend in Harkin’s Theatre’s box office, the Hannah Montana movie came in first with a whopping $32,324,487. That is $50,86,582 more than Fast and Furious in which came in second! Hannah Montana was just released this weekend, where Fast and Furious was [...]

What’s a better Easter story than pirates raiding American boats and taking the Captain hostage?
Modern day pirates have taken a step backward from the swashbuckling heroes in Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Somali pirates and their guns do not have the same mystic allure as swords and broken compases and cursed Aztec gold.
The picture [...]

It’s not just Stephen Colbert who is wagging his finger at others.
Beijing recently blamed consumers for their pollution.
Really Beijing? Consumers are your friends. If you can’t find environmentally friendly ways to manufacture your products, that’s your problem.

Picture by “jaaron” via Flickr

Meanwhile back at the ranch, the FDA is getting in over it’s head. Despite the [...]

From the people who brought you NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), a new adventure has arrived.
Script Frenzy. 30 days. Hardly any sleep. Lots of caffiene. Lots of fun. Lots of chocolate. 100 pages of a script.
Script Frenzy was created so that people could give themselves a month to let their imaginations run wild.
“After shrinking [...]

First of all, I wanted to apologize for not picking a theme. Now I would like to give you my excuse: life got crazy. Rika is a crazy person who can run on almost no sleep, but I sure can’t! Also I usually don’t write that often.
So the theme of this month is “things that should be [...]

Most people have heard about the Rihanna and Chris Brown story;  supposedly he hit her with an umbrella (ironic, I know)  from inside a limo and caused damage to her face and neck. If you have seen the pictures, it is devastating and I do not believe anyone deserves to be treated like this. Domestic violence [...]

Ladies and gentleman, here at The Nearby Future, we would love nothing more than to run rampant with glitter and turn our homepage into a tinsel-y mess of fantastically sparkling pictures that resembles a Christmas tree decorated by a four year old.
But we don’t.
We consider glitter on a homepage a sign of weakness.
Or desperation.
But what [...]

We’re in a recession. Can’t you smell the desperation in the air? If you want to tell which companies aren’t doing so hot by simply perusing one of their products, count the number of adjectives. The more adjectives, the more debt the company has. A company goes through a verb phrase before they unconsciously turn [...]

The nation’s had it’s fair share of misleading health trends, and it’s great to see things beginning to shift.
With the high fructose corn syrup commercials, it had seemed as if corporate America had once again staved off the health research and all movements towards healthy eating. But all is not lost, as there is a [...]

If you take a look at a modern day textbook, you’ll find a disturbing trend: they pack a lot of useless information in a sentence that could be written ANY other way and it would make more sense.
Example: “…Isotopes are atoms of an element that have the same number of protons but a different number [...]