Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer

Carnivorous plant that captures prey by quickly closing its leaves into a jaw-like trap

Barbara Daly Baekeland  One mother who most certainly seduced her son was Barbara Daly Baekeland. Born in 1922, Baekeland was a model whose face graced the pages of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. After failing to make it in Hollywood as an actress, she married…

The demand for ‘perfect’ fruit and veg means much is discarded, damaging the climate and leaving people hungry

The labrador retriever has saved a dozen lives throughout her career

Author Natasha Dow Schüll talks about the evolution of slot machines, exploring how and why they've become so addictive.

American mass murderer

American inventor

Find senex (Noun) in the Latin Online Dictionary with English meanings, all fabulous forms & inflections and a conjugation table: senex, senis, seni, senem, senes, senum

Chocolate bars, toilet rolls, breakfast cereal and toothpaste are just some of the thousands of products that have been getting smaller, but what is really driving 'shrinkflation'?

High-rise syndrome is the phenomenon of cats falling from higher than two stories (7–9 m (23–30 ft)). This is generally from high-rise buildings, or skyscrapers, and is also used to refer to the injuries sustained by a cat falling from a great height.

While St. Patrick’s Day is cause to celebrate everything Irish-American, it’s also a good time to ponder just why more than a million Irish were forced to leave Ireland while another million were dying of starvation in such a short period of time in the first…

American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer

physicist, astronaut

It has been called the largest airborne transfer of currency in the history of the world. But finding out what happened to all the money involved has become one of the biggest financial mysteries of all time.

Spider-Man in The Avengers or X-Men? Longtime producer and the founder of Marvel Studios reveal what it would need to happen.

A Hawaii overprint note is one of a series of banknotes (one silver certificate and three Federal Reserve Notes) issued during World War II as an emergency issue after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The intent of the overprints was to easily distinguish US currency…

Like most little kids, I used to love getting things in the mail. And in the 1990s, I was lucky enough to get something new every single day. Sadly, 99.9 percent of those were install discs from AOL. If you lived in the United States in the 1990s, you remember…

Teacher and activist

I mentioned this phenomena on my 20/20 interview.I mentioned the Germany cremation fire that recently occurred in a post a few months back.And now this news headline out of Austria: "Dead obese woman had so much body fat she set the building on fire during…

"Let It Be" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released in March 1970 as a single, and (in an alternate mix) as the noscript track of their album Let It Be. At the time, it had the highest debut on the Billboard Hot 100, beginning its chart run…