slang term for buying books but not reading them

If you want to offer a naturally enriching, calming, and enjoyable experience for your dog, head out on a walk full of time to sniff.

A  man who was dumped by his girlfriend has spent a quarter of a million yuan (HK$314,000) buying hundreds of IMAX cinema tickets for Beijing screenings of the latest Transformers movie in an unusual bid to prove how successful he has become.

principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate unlikely explanations for a phenomenon

By the mid-1800s, the River Thames had been used as a dumping ground for human excrement for centuries. At last, fear of its ‘evil odour’ led to one of the greatest advancements in urban planning: Joseph Bazalgette’s sewage system

Anal stenosis (anal stricture) is a rare condition that causes your anus to narrow. Symptoms are constipation, narrow poops and pain when you try to poop.

Scythian, member of a nomadic people, originally of Iranian stock, known from as early as the 9th century BCE who migrated westward from Central Asia to southern Russia and Ukraine in the 8th and 7th centuries BCE. The Scythians founded a rich, powerful empire…

The amazing biography of Chuck Feeney (Charles Francis Feeney). A billionaire who practiced "Giving While Living", founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, DFS - Duty-Free Shoppers Group.

1938 flood in China

Sleep is integral to cardiovascular health^1,2. Yet, the circuits that connect cardiovascular pathology and sleep are incompletely understood. It remains unclear whether cardiac injury influences sleep and whether sleep-mediated neural outputs contribute…

Lost in Ocean Spray’s accidental moment in the spotlight is this fact: Ocean Spray is one of America’s oldest — and largest — retail coops. Since its founding, a network of farmers have owned and run the business. And even without TikTok in the picture, its…

drink usually containing fruit or fruit juice

In Athens and Rome, voting could entail shouting contests, secret stone ballots and an election system with built-in bias for the wealthy.

medical device patented in 1892

Found along beaches and in the mangrove swamps of tropical climates, the fruit of the manchineel tree was called the 'little apple of death' by Spanish conquistadors.

"The accused apparently believed that the sacrifice would appease the soul" of his late brother, according to the head of the local police force.

typewriters used to type the Thai noscript

town in Oswego County, New York

aspect of law of Thailand

A disease-detecting “precision health” toilet can sense multiple signs of illness through automated urine and stool analysis, a new Stanford study reports.

Regulation II implements a provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that requires the Board to establish standards for assessing whether the amount of any interchange fee received by a debit card issuer is reasonable and proportional to the cost incurred by the issuer…