Category: History
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7 of Cheap Flip-Flop
My tennis shoes feel like fat barnacles on the pier legs in air like this. There’s an old man selling flip-flops from a small shop that’s probably been here for a long time. Ten dollars. In Santa Monica Beach that probably means they’re worth two. Yeah, sure why not. They’re comfortable and feel appropriate for…
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World Population Growth in the Past Century Will Astound You
While it’s no secret to sociologists, many of us don’t realize just how much the world population has grown in the past century. I was back in college in 2018 and taking an online general class when I found out that the world population had reached over 7.6 billion people. When I was a kid…
