Month: February 2015

Unlike the majority of birds from other continents, native New Zealand birds have such pungent body odor that it tips ...

Plastics are filling our oceans at an ungodly rate. Incredibly difficult to get rid of, researchers are now finding that ...

Ever wonder why a man has to buy not one, but two rings to marry a woman? Wouldn't one ring ...

The Renaissance is generally synonymous with progress, and progress is synonymous with science. So it is generally assumed that that ...

Ever wonder who invented the air dancer? You know, that floppy tube guy who spends his time dancing in front ...

It turns out that there are too many different types of practice---and other factors built into the concept of success---for ...

The trigger for lightning bolts---especially the fatal cloud-to-ground type---has long been a mystery. However, scientists now believe that the Sun's ...

Similar to synesthetes who experience a blending of their senses, people without synesthesia can be taught to "see" letters of ...

In 1927, deranged pineapple tycoon James Dole, who had turned an entire Hawaiian island into the world's largest plantation, announced ...

Listen to the popular horror stories about just how many rats there are in the world's cities, and it'll make ...

Carl Magee was quite an interesting character. He exposed some of America’s most corrupt politicians, shot a man to death, ...

Despite fighting on the same side as Britain at the end of World War I, in the 1920s and '30s ...

When electrically stimulating the left hemisphere of an epileptic's brain, doctors discovered that they could create a sinister shadow person ...

Buddhist academics claim that the recent discovery in Mongolia of an approximately 200-year-old mummified monk, frozen in the lotus or ...

William Henry Ireland was 19 when he decided to impress his distant father with a “recently discovered” document written in ...

Alchemy was, at its heart, the science of trying to find a way to turn lead or other common metals ...

If you were to visit the fire department in Livermore, California, you’d find an oddly shaped lightbulb hanging in the ...

The monolithic rock of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka (also known as the "Lion Rock") could just as easily be known ...

Unusually for a town so near the Canadian border, Town Line, New York voted to secede from the Union in ...

Fashion accessories aren't usually dangerous, but in the early 1900s, the media was comparing the incredibly sharp, incredibly dangerous, foot-long ...

According to researchers from Harvard and Virginia Universities, all of mankind is laboring under a sort of species-wide blind spot. ...