Now, you may have heard that North Korea is nice this time of year. No pollution staining the skies, and plenty of missiles going off to keep things exciting.
Now I have nothing against Kim Jong-il and his merry band of artillery, besides the fact he seems to like firing off lots of big guns for [...]

It’s Independence Day. It’s the Day that 55 men signed a Declaration in Independence Hall that would, in time, change the World. 
Some words break; some words mend. Some words hurt; some words heal. Some words help while some words hinder. Some confuse while other clear. Any way you slice it, though, words have power. These [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, there are several things that are known to cause apocalyptic situations:

Evil dictators
Nuclear warfare
When good TV gets canned

When Glee, the show with barbed wire wit and snappy music numbers, and Chuck, the action-packed spy thriller/comedy with an endearing romantic angle, both encountered cruel and unusual hiatuses, the world went into shock. This shock [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here’s a radical idea for you: what if there was no time?
Considering that timing is everything and time is money, where does that leave us? Broke and without anything?
Turns out, this idea might not be as radical as you think. I was reading the Discover magazine today, and I found an interesting passage:
“There may be [...]

     Jan 18-24 is national hunt for happiness week. I think that people need more than week to hunt for happiness isn’t that supposed to be a life long venture? Oh I guess I read that wrong. It’s supposed to be a week where you realize and celebrate all thing that have made you happy [...]

This year The Nearby Future staff has written a collective 48,747 words! Here are your favorite articles from staff members with the most page views (not counting Jala, because she writes pages, not posts).

Rika’s best articles: “Corn“, “Stress: Side Effects Include…”, and “The World is Not Coming to an End“
Calister F. Well’s best articles: “When [...]

Really, we don’t brag a lot here.
But the article we wrote back in February happened to have a correct prediction in comparing the oncoming recession to the Great Depression.
Even President Bush has declared that our “entire economy is in danger” during his pep talk today.
I’m beginning to see a trend here.
 

As you can see [...]

The opening ceremony of the Olympics was incredible- the visual effects and the atmosphere created was truly memorable and has definitely earned a place in history.
But all technological wonders of this quickly advancing countries, I noticed many other things, too. Here are some of my observations:

It was spectacular, but I can’t help but [...]

News stations, newspapers, talk shows, daily conversation- in almost every aspect of our lives, doubt seems to be sinking in even more so that global warming, raising oil prices, and many other conflicts will not be solved as cleanly as we all had hoped.
But no, it’s not time to break out [...]