Funeral for Pastor Jamie Coots, who died Saturday from a snakebite, is Tuesday.

Higher education in Japan is supported by an army of part-time lecturers who are unable to secure stable employment or decent wages despite their advanced degrees. The pandemic has highlighted the plight of this academic underclass and the deeper problems…

Robert X Cringely, in his wonderful book Accidental Empires, tells a rib-tickling yarn about the early days of Apple. It happened in the late 1970’s when Apple had grown beyond the point that all the employees knew each other on sight. So it was decided that…

Who knows what could have become of the poo left on the Moon?

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CANTON, Ohio Mark it down as the goofiest speech in Pro Football Hall of Fame history. William Sanders, asked by his son to introduce him at the induction ceremony on Sunday, indeed spoke. But not ab…

An albatross has spent 40 years looking for romance in Scotland, 8,000 miles away any potential mates.

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Air conditioners are not the best for the planet long term, but Europeans may need to care a bit more about themselves in the short term and start installing more of them.

This list of kings and reigning queens of the Kingdom of England begins with Alfred the Great, who initially ruled Wessex, one of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which later made up modern England. Alfred styled himself king of the Anglo-Saxons from about…

Gal Gadot was pregnant during much of the shooting of Wonder Woman; in fact, she was five months pregnant when she had to reshoot a particular scene. We don’t see it, thanks to some CGI magic.

Once a live-in nanny, Merissa Mowry was sentenced to 20 years for sexually battering the child for whom she was supposed to care, resulting in the birth of another child.

In 1641 the people of New Haven heard news that a monstrous piglet, bearing human-like features, had been delivered by a sow owned by Mrs Wakeman.

Shenlou zhi (蜃樓志) is a Chinese erotic novel written in the Qing dynasty by an unknown author. Predominantly set in Ming dynasty Guangzhou, it follows the political career and love life of young polygamist Su Jishi (蘇吉士). First published in 1804, an unabridged…

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The frontman for The Doors owned just one car, and it mysteriously disappeared. What happened to it?

Evidence suggests that ejaculation frequency may be inversely related to the risk of prostate cancer (PCa), a disease for which few modifiable risk factors have been identified.To incorporate an additional 10 yr of follow-up into an original analysis ...