Lists From LiveScience

LiveScience is a site I visit whenever I have enough time on my hands because of their fascinating lists. I'd like to think that if I had grown up in a country which had a strong emphasis on engineering and science, I would've made a good lab rat, especially in research. My mother, a doctor, owned this light microscope once upon a time, a left-over piece of equipment from her med-school days, which she let me and my brothers use just for kicks. I remember enjoying looking at everything through its lens: pondwater, dead insects, fingernails, blood samples, soil, grass, skin flakes, feathers, leaves, hair, amoeba, parameciums, and other single-celled organisms that I grew in my very own petri dish cultures.

But the Philippines is not such a country, and I eventually found my way to books. Nonetheless, science still fascinates me plenty, and the lists on LiveScience can stimulate anyone's storytelling, if they just let it reach their creativity. Science, after all, which tries to complete the sentence "What is..." in explaining anything, is just a short, short step away from storytelling, which tries to answer the question, "What if?".

A sample of LiveScience's lists, with a lot more liberally spread throughout the site:

Top Ten Unexplained Phenomena
Top Ten Ways To Destroy Earth
Top Ten Beasts And Dragons: How Reality Made Myth
Top Ten Missing Links
Top Ten Deadliest Animals
Top Ten Mysteries Of The Mind
Medieval Torture's Ten Biggest Myths
Power Of The Future: Ten Ways To Run the 21st Century