By helping people in Bangladesh both to stay safe from cyclones and increase their income, the Red Cross increased the positive impact on people's lives.

Percy Spencer had only a fifth-grade education, but that didn’t stop him from earning patents crucial to winning World War II – and to cooking dinner in minutes. He was the fourth person hired at a new company called Raytheon in Cambridge, Mass. He had an…

way of calculating the day of the week of a given date

Survivor of fall through a thunderstorm cloud

The evolution of the ability to break down a plant's protective lignin largely stopped the geologic burial of carbon that formed present-day coal deposits—and may provide secrets to making biofuels from inedible parts of plants

Survivor of fall through a thunderstorm cloud

Ken Allen was a Bornean orangutan living at the San Diego Zoo. He swiftly became the most famous animal in the history of the zoo due to the number of successful escapes from his enclosures he committed.

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Israeli politician

Int J Impot Res. 2011 Jan-Feb;23(1):32-8. doi: 10.1038/ijir.2010.33. Epub 2011 Jan 13.

The lovely scent of cut grass is the reek of plant anguish: When attacked, plants release airborne chemical compounds. Now scientists say plants can use these compounds almost like language, notifying nearby creatures who can "rescue" them from insect attacks.

For the fantasy cult classic Labyrinth, David Bowie played Jareth, the codpiece-sporting Goblin King. And throughout the film, Jareth is constantly twirling crystal balls just to show off how flamboyantly magical he is.

Ewa Wisnierska was the top female paraglider in the world. But when she sailed directly into a massive, violent thunderstorm, the unimaginable happened.

Washing chickens in chlorine isn't actually deemed dangerous – it's what comes with it that's the problem.

Giant panda Ai Hin may have faked her pregnancy for a 'better quality of life'

An internal investigation has been launched at the Detroit Police Department after two different precincts got into a turf war as they converged on an east side neighborhood.

Chris Farley on Letterman show 1996

American businessperson, piano builder

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Any student of Latin lyric poetry will tell you that Catullus' poems get pretty raunchy, obsessed with genitalia, semen, and sex in general. But one of his poems is so vulgar that an uncensored modern English translation wasn't published until the 20th century.

The giant storm pipes out temperatures over 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit