If you’ve spent any time in a hotel in the past few years, you’ve probably encountered a bed scarf, even if you didn’t know what it was called. A bed scarf is a throw-like piece of material draped …

Two people born with six fingers on each hand adeptly control their extra digits, using them to do tasks better than five-fingered hands.

Hotel California was the biggest-selling album of The Eagles' career, but it marked the beginning of their demise.

Guest blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Natasha Hirt What do hippos and whales have in common? A tonne. It may seem surprising that hippos are the closest living relative to

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From Pitchfork (Review of Abbey Road):

The Beatles' run in the 1960s is good fodder for thought experiments. For example, Abbey Road came out in...

Mel Brooks hadn’t directed a movie in six years when he committed to 1987’s 'Spaceballs,' a joke-saturated spoof of 'Star Wars' and other popular genre films of the era.

Nowe Ateny (New Athens) is the abbreviated noscript of the first Polish-language encyclopedia, authored by the 18th century Polish priest Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski. The first edition was published in 1745–1746 in Lwów (Lviv); the second edition, updated and…

Leif Eriksson Day commemorates the Norse explorer believed to have led the first European expedition to North America.

It's an example of iterative evolution — when the same ancestral lineage leads to repeated evolution of a species at different points in time

Get the facts on the enigmatic men-at-arms behind Ancient Rome’s most notorious form of entertainment.

Newly discovered evidence is upending our understanding of how early settlers made a life on the island -- and why they suddenly disappeared