A STAFF REPORT FROM THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD

We explore this surreal phenomenon of bulk-garbage disposal and societal interaction, when the streets are filled with rubbish and relics and even kitchen sinks.

The date difference isn't the only thing that separates the two holidays

The plague in London, 1665. How it began and spread. Life in plague London.

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polygon with 1 million sides

A released stufy confirms that anorexia death rate (anorexia nervosa) has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder

Explore ten surprising facts about one of America’s first and greatest expeditions of discovery.

32nd US President's physical disability

Read 10 things you likely didn't know about Pink Floyd's 1973 masterpiece 'Dark Side of the Moon.'

Through sites and objects from across the globe, Slavery and Remembrance aims to broaden our understandings of a shared and painful past, the ways in which we collectively remember and forget, and the power of legacies to shape our present and future.

Factories are running at close to a record pace, writes Rex Nutting.

folk song by Woodie Guthrie

American whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts

British film director and producer (1899-1980)

Aruban singer

While shooting "Ocean's 12," Pitt and Cheadle were tasked with staying in the haunted house with just "a candle, six matches, and a bottle of wine."

American dog musher, noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years

1804 English murder case