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27
Sep
Today’s quote (sorry it’s been so long, life got crazy) is a poem by Robert Frost (as will the rest of this week be) Fire & Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it [...]
Tags: fire, future, ice, picture, quote, robert frost, sarah
25
May
Hey everybody! So I posted a random quote from National Treasure 2 on my facebook page the other day, and my friend brought up a very good point. The quote was from Ben Gates, talking to the President in the tunnels under the cellar. Everything I am is because of my ancestors My friend argued [...]
Tags: agency, ancestry, choices, destiny, future, hope, quote, sarah
17
Oct
Malaria is a problem that plagues our entire world. Anywhere between 350 and 500 MILLION new cases arise per year. Malaria kills over 1,000,000 people annually, and most of these people are African children. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, [...]
Tags: disease, foundations, future, help, hope, institutes, malaria, research, sarah
11
Sep
September 11, 2001. Three important monuments of sorts were devastatingly destroyed. We will always remember them who died there. Will we, however, remember the fourth airliner? The one that crashed in the Pennsylvania field? We need to remember them as well, for they were war heroes just as much as others who died upon the [...]
14
Aug
When you think of the word “future” what do you think of? Do you think of careers and jobs you may have later in life? Your children’s wedding days? Goals you have set for yourself? That’s all well and good….for the NEARBY future. What about for the long term future? Do you see wars or [...]
30
May
~This post dedicated to Kelsie~ Toasters have advanced throughout the years. From little metal boxes with grates on one side so you could watch them cook… To completely inclosed, dual- slotted things… And now they even have FOUR slots for those with bigger families who need more toast quicker…. So I ask you: WHAT WILL [...]
Tags: advancement, change, future, improvements, sarah, toasters
23
May
One word summary? Palindromes. Which, in fact, is not a palindrome. Huh. Anyhoo, palindromes are series of words, numbers or patterns that read the same both forward and backward. Some examples include: racecar hannah 343 and 1221 Those are some “short and simple” (if you will) palindromes. Then there are more complex, more lengthy [...]
Tags: amazing, future, incredible, list, numbers, palindromes, racecar, sarah
13
May
“Psych? As in ‘Gotcha!’?” “Oh Gus. The best way to convince people you aren’t lying to them is to tell them you are.” Thus is the logic of Shawn Spencer and his buisness-partner-slash-best-friend-since-preschool, Burton “Gus” Guster, open up a psychic detective agency called . This delicious show is a three course meal. APPETIZER: SUSPENSE. [...]
9
May
The Best is Yet to Come. Not only is this an epic Frank Sinatra song, but it is also a very true statement in the case of yours truly. You see, Rika has challenged us to a “writers competition” if you will. (We prefer to refer to it as our Ninja-turtle assassination attempt). I just [...]
20
Jul
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 [...]
Tags: 2009, America, apocalypse, burger, China, Doom, eclips, eclipse, end of the world, fries, future, ghost story, India, July 22, ketchup, media, media tricks, pregnant woman going outside during the eclipse, rika, side of doom, solar, solar eclipse, Southeast Asia, superstition, tactics, turmoil, unrest, world news, Yahoo!
16
Jan
The Nearby Future has technically been up for three years (if you count the time we spent tacked onto the end of freewebs.com/thenearbyfuture) but it’s been a full year since we got www.thenearbyfuture.com. You’re invited to participate in The Nearby Future’s 1st Anniversary Staff Contest! This time around, the stakes are higher, the competition is [...]
Tags: , anniversary, future, near, nearby future, staff contest, you're invited
24
Dec
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 [...]
Tags: , 2008, articles, best, Calister, clocky, corn, future, hope, HPV, hummers, Izze, new year, of, PLOTG, rika, Side Effects, stress, Think Like the Greeks
24
Sep
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. [...]
Tags: , economy, future, graph, I told you so, inevitable, meltdown, nearby, predictions, rika, stylish, we told you so
27
May
The only real big difference between normal cars and hybrid cars is that hybrid cars have a special system that captures braking energy, which is then stored in an onboard battery.
People are now picking hybrids because hybrids are the most gasoline efficient of all cars, they typically get 48 to 60 mpg. That’s great, but it’s only about 20% to 35% better than a fuel efficient gasoline powered vehicle such as the Honda Civic in which gets 36 mpg. When you compare prices, however, hybrids cost from $19,000 to $25,000 and gas saver cars cost $14,000 to $17,000.
Not only is the hybrid cars fuel efficient, it is also “green” for the environment, and we all know this website is definitely pro-environment. But hybrid cars offer more than just great fuel economy, they offer many green advantages as well. Where pollution is the worst (large cities), it produces smaller emissions when you’re in those stop-and-go traffic jams.
Applaud Japanese companies because the two hybrid cars that are the most popular are the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius. Come on, U.S., catch up!
Tags: , Cars, future, hope, hybrid, nearby, percentages, vehicles, what is
3
May
What is wrong with our planet? Being America, it’s easy to do what we do best: (no, not eating fast food, although we do that too) import stuff from other countries. We import everything from food to dinky little party favors to food. A good question to ask is what happens when there is a [...]
Tags: , , agriculture, Environment, future, global warming, irrigation, rain patterns, rika, world in trouble
6
Apr
4:32 PM: hear Calister’s complaints about how the green flowers are too “girly”. Laugh along with him, promise that I’ll look into other templates, but secretly plan his demise.
4:46 PM: Check the site’s status and clap excitedly as I see that someone else BESIDES the staff actually commented!
4:56 PM: Reject Calister’s article on the stupid topics that have nothing to do with the future OR the environment OR technology. In the article rejection email, tell him that his next article should be about ice cream. Write a witty rejection letter in advance.
Tags: , april, Calister, daily, future, harder, jala, list, nearby, rika, staff contest, than, think, writer, you
26
Feb
This article is my follow up article to my other writing piece entitled “Lost Arts of the Future”. I recently found some interesting proof that Piratical Lord of the Guitars and my predictions are coming true, along with some videos that are on the subject in general. (“Lost Arts of the Future” can be read [...]
Tags: , arts, cooking, future, instruments, lost, piratical, predictions, rika
25
Feb
“It may do us best to not know and be happy, but knowing will, inevitably, make us stronger for the future.” Rika’s Thoughts: This is very true. For example, if one country knew that another country was planning war against the other, it would make them stronger for the war ahead. Or, perhaps, in the [...]
Tags: asteroid, Earth, environmentalist, future, happy, immigration, of, Philosophy, rika, socrates, stronger, the, thoughts, week
24
Feb
About two or three years ago on freewebs.com/thenearbyfuture I wrote a particular article about the dangers of using corn as fuel. It was moved to this site earlier in January (view it here) and I thought that it contained some good points. If people had taken the article seriously, then corn and our economy would [...]
Tags: , algae, corn, ethanol, frustrated, fuel, future, good, listen, listened, moral, nearby, points, rika, world
23
Feb
Have you ever done basket weaving? Probably not. What about cave painting? I doubt it. Those are two of the ‘lost arts’ today. Sure- if you look hard enough you could probably find a basket weaving class somewhere but it isn’t nearly as common today as it was a long time ago. A great question [...]
Tags: , , arts, cooking, cursive, future, instant, knitting, lost, lost arts, print, rika, sewing, writing
15
Feb
If you haven’t already read it, “Ender’s Game” is a book by Orson Scott Card about the future. They haven’t got to time machines, but it’s mostly about space battles and aliens and (obviously) trying to save the world. In the book, a boy named Ender Wiggin is an intelligent 6-year-old that is asked — [...]
Tags: , book, card, ender, ender's game, future, Jennith, orson, scott
13
Jan
Hey all you people out there! This is Calister F. Wells here. I know posting entries is basically Rika’s thing but I’ve decided that Rika needs to get a life and let me be the head writer! *bows* It’s a good idea, I know. No need to applaud Anyways, no need to babble about unnecessary [...]
Tags: backwards, Calister, forwards, future, Philosophy