Last month we brought you five interesting world records set in Antarctica.  Since then we’ve been reminded of another… Eleven babies have been born in Antarctica, and none of them died as infants. Antarctica therefore has the lowest infant mortality rate…

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Ultrasound waves applied to particular parts of the brain have been found to be capable of altering a patient's mood

Noodles and Dexter Holland reflect on 25 years of The Offspring's Smash...

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A safe that proved to be a community mystery has finally been opened at the Civic Museum of Regina.

Original Item: This is an extremely rare U.S. WWII produced Paradummy. A paradummy is a military deception device first used in World War II, intended to imitate a drop of paratroop attackers. This ca

first person killed by a robot, born 1954

The Underground Railroad ran south as well as north. For enslaved people in Texas, refuge in Canada must have seemed impossibly far away. Fortunately, slavery

With his love of Game Of Thrones, Star Trek, and everything else the Internet holds dear, Parks And Recreation’s Ben Wyatt has become something of an icon for America’s nerderati. So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Mayfair Games, the company…

The Justice Department said Friday that British Petroleum has agreed to pay a record-breaking $18.7 billion settlement to resolve claims related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, but advocacy groups are warning that the settlement…

The 9/11 advance-knowledge conspiracies center on arguments that certain institutions or individuals had foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001.

Short selling occurs when an investor borrows a security, sells it on the open market, and expects to buy it back later for less money.

Icelandic horses are one of the most unique horse breeds. Find out what it's like to go horseback riding over lava fields in Iceland in this post.

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This famous '80s case study is a terrifying glimpse into acute mercury poisoning.

Keepers must trick her into thinking she had only one baby

Adolph Quetelet (1796-1874) was a Belgian statistician, and famously envisioned l'homme moyen—an image of the average man developed through the measurement of human features with the deviation plotted around the mean. He started with human physical features…

Alain de Botton finds a corner of South America that is forever France, and where tropical jungle tangles with space exploration

Why would a psychological scientist study swearing? Expertise in such an area has different practical significance inside and outside the community of psychological science. Outside the scientific community, expertise on taboo language is justification for

St. Clair's defeat, also known as the Battle of the Wabash, the Battle of Wabash River or the Battle of a Thousand Slain, was a battle fought on 4 November 1791 in the Northwest Territory of the United States of America. The U.S. Army faced the Western Confederacy…