Electronic cigarettes are advertised as the latest technological gadget—the smoking equivalent of smart phones. I challenge this sense of novelty by tracing their history to the 1960s, when researchers at British American Tobacco first recognized ...

Smoking bans are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, that prohibit tobacco smoking in certain spaces. The United States Congress has not attempted to enact any type of nationwide federal smoking ban in…

Whether out shopping, or exploring a new city, we’re all going to need to use the toilet at some point during the day. But which cities across the UK and the US have the most and least public toilets? @QSSupplies have created the Public Toilet Index to find…

Smashing atoms together can be used for evil, but some scientists are in it for that Guinness World Record

Bumper cars have been essential attractions from the earliest days of amusement parks to the present.

The aardwolf (Proteles cristata) is an insectivorous species of hyena, native to East and Southern Africa. Its name means "earth-wolf" in Afrikaans and Dutch. It is also called the maanhaar-jackal (Afrikaans for "mane-jackal"), termite-eating hyena and civet…

There are few things more irritating than being woken by noisy neighbours. But how much do you actually have to put up with.

A po' boy almost always consists of meat, which is usually roast beef or fried seafood, often shrimp, crawfish, fish, oysters or crab. The meat is served on New Orleans French bread, known for its crisp crust and fluffy center.

type of silk which is obtained without killing silk worms

At a critical and commercial peak after Aqualung, Tull frontman Ian Anderson created an album that split one epic track over two sides - parodying prog and rock poetry

American whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts

How to identify Hemlock Water Dropwort, Oenanthe crocata

Benjamin Franklin maintained a lifelong fascination with what he ate and was not one to miss out on the pleasures associated with eating.

Before Smokey and the Bandit, there was C.W. and Mavis.

Chapman sued Minaj in October 2018 for sampling her 1988 song "Baby Can I Hold You."

German-American actor and musician

"You're Pitiful" is a parody of the James Blunt song "You're Beautiful" written and recorded by American parody musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. It was released exclusively online on June 7, 2006. In it, Yankovic chides a 42-year-old man who lives a pitiful…