The Beatles' story is inextricably linked with drugs. From their early pre-fame days on Benzedrine and Preludin, to the flower-power era of LSD, and onto harder drugs as the 1960s ended, here's a broadly-chronological overview of what they took and when.…

Convenience stores are experimenting with blue lights in bathrooms to deter drug usage.

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1930s Yugoslav low-wing, monoplane, single-seat fighter

Dennis Wilson was one of the Wilson brothers that were part of the legendary Beach Boys. The brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl formed the band with their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine to change the music industry forever with classic albums such as…

Burnt Offerings bears a striking resemblance to Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic.

Statistics about the population and components of change (births, deaths, migration) for Australia and its states and territories

Simulation theories of empathy hypothesize that empathizing with others’ pain shares some common psychological computations with the processing of one’s own pain. Support for this perspective has largely relied on functional neuroimaging ...

steel roller coaster at Universal's Islands of Adventure

The divisibility rule of 3 states that if the sum of the digits of a whole number is a multiple of 3, then the original number is also divisible by 3. For larger numbers with the help of the divisibility rule of 3, we can check if the number is completely…

The male body of Ancient Greece is ample, firm, and muscular—so why weren’t these same aesthetic ideals applied to the penis?

traditional eye protection of the Inuit people

October 1982 The Far Side strip depicting tools used by cows

By the time Bell died, he had moved on to other inventions. But the telephone made a huge mark on American society

Sudetenland-German who helped save lives during the Holocaust

For more than two centuries in Europe a curious psychiatric disorder made people believe they were made of glass

Backover crashes kill nearly 200 people annually. So now, all new cars will be required to have a backup camera, USA Today reports.

Are there really as many dog bites as we think there are? Is one breed responsible for them all? We'll give you the facts in this article.

This story took place in Romania and is now being discussed by all the local media. It looks pretty surreal, but it’s completely real. And very strang

Objective To determine the quality of health recommendations and claims made on popular medical talk shows.

Design Prospective observational study.

Setting Mainstream television media.

Sources Internationally syndicated medical television talk shows that…