This paper, about the curious phenomenon of "harbinger customers" and "harbinger zip codes", is really interesting. These harbinger customers tend to buy unpopular products like Crystal Pepsi or Col

A long-term study of 1,420 people finds that childhood trauma is more commonplace than is often assumed, and that its effects upon the transition to adulthood and adult functioning are not only confined to post-traumatic stress symptoms and depression but…

He was rock's master theorist and conceptual genius, the songwriter who understood what the kids wanted before they knew themselves.

There are over 300 different languages spoken in the U.S. today; half of those are indigenous languages spoken by Native American tribes

The actor's last on-screen film role was in 1997 - but he's about to return to the big screen.

Adrian Targett visited the home of a close relative yesterday. He had to put on Wellington boots because the floor is muddy. The relative was not in. Hardly surprising: he died 9,000 years ago.

Two main opposing forces affect a tree's height; one pushes it upward while the other holds it down. By analyzing the interplay between these forces, a team of biologists led by George Koch of Northern Arizona University calculated the theoretical maximum…

The Five-Minute Medievalist talks about the life and times of Edward I, King of England.

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Did you know National Band & Tag used to manufacture rose colored Chicken Glasses to help stop chickens from pecking at each other? The sight of blood intensified the pecking instinct in chickens, so the rose-colored lenses made the red disappear, thus reducing…

A mile under the ocean, we get to watch an octopus perform a heroic act of heart and determination.

The Amazing World of Gumball just wants other cartoons to "be their own you"

Holy hell! This is one of the funniest stories we’ve heard in a long time. Ask yourself, “how far are…

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This is a pretty remarkable story for a number of reasons: perhaps most obviously is that the kid in this picture seems really damn big for a five-year-old, and also because of the reason the kid was driving a car in the first place, which was to buy a Lamborghini.…

composition for piano by Ludwig van Beethoven

largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain

The Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain club was started by Stephen Pile in order to bring together people of notable ineptitude so that they could share common experiences of failure. The club had a handbook, The Book of Heroic Failures, which became…