Month: September 2013

Known as the “Turbaned Torpedo," marathon runner Fauja Singh retired from racing in February 2013 ... at the age of ...

For decades, a Nazi pedophile named Paul Schaefer ran a cult-like commune in the backcountry of Chile. The community, called ...

The Amazon rainforest is often seen as the poster child for conservation. This last bastion of biodiversity is in great ...

True to form, humans just love coming up with creativity ways to kill each other. One crazy way has been ...

During the 1950s and 1960s, researchers at Bell Aerosystems developed the first jetpack, named the Bell Rocket Belt. It was ...

In 1978, a medical photographer named Janet Parker became the last person to die from smallpox. The office she worked ...

During the Cold War, the US developed a bazooka-like launcher that was the smallest and lightest nuclear weapon ever deployed ...

During World War II, the British needed a way to hunt German U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean because their land-based ...

Established nearly a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, there is ...

In 2011, the Chinese government passed guidelines that would largely prohibit any time travel plot devices in television and movies. ...

John Lilly was a neuroscientist and pioneering "psychonaut" who invented the sensory deprivation tank and experimented heavily with psychedelic drugs. ...

MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, has been around for almost 100 years. It was in use as a counseling ...

In April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power station experienced the worst meltdown in history. Fast-forward 25 years and the radiation-soaked ...

In 1985, a Japanese baseball team from Oksaka called the Hanshin Tigers won the Japanese League (they had a penchant ...

Prostitution has been legal in Switzerland for over six decades. One of the Swiss government's solutions to the public nuisances ...

Martin Luther was a German theologian who was instrumental in establishing Protestantism. He was also an overt, raging anti-Semite who ...

The World Community Grid uses computing power from idle home computers to help search for new drugs to combat HIV ...

Google has rolled out a fiber optic--based Internet service to three American cities, and it is cheaper and 100 times ...

Although the names are often used interchangeably in the United States, yams and sweet potatoes are from two different families ...

Going to the bathroom in space is a complicated affair, even today. But back when we were first getting off ...