Month: December 2013

It's a bitterly cold morning, with temperatures that drop near freezing. The sun is shining, the sky is clear, and ...

Llamas are quirky-looking barnyard animals frequently seen munching crackers at a petting zoo. Angry llamas are known to spit, but ...

A circular, brown weed rolls around like a ball in a barren desert -- tumbleweed. The plant is an icon ...

Spartan society has been invoked as an exemplar of everything from gender equality to democratic freedom. But the oft-praised martial ...

African and Asian elephants might look basically the same, but they actually belong to two different genera: The scientific name ...

Strangely enough, a study has shown that people who are intoxicated have a greater chance of surviving serious injuries than ...

As one of the stars of "Sesame Street," jolly vampire Count von Count has been teaching children how to count ...

There is a lot of confusion when it comes to mental health, and it is especially confusing to the layperson ...

The November, December and January holidays are exciting for some, and depressing for others. It's the time of year when ...

Faced with one of the lowest income tax filing rates in the developed world, Pakistan has had to resort to ...

Addiction is a serious issue for many people, with alcoholism and drug abuse being the most noteworthy examples. But real, ...

The trials and tribulations of the British crown have been as bizarre as any soap opera, but the reign of ...

What's the difference? The short answer is "absolutely nothing." The more complicated answer is "absolutely everything." The American animal commonly ...

The ancient laws which demand "an eye for an eye" are often regarded as barbaric and excessively punitive. Many ancient ...

For a guy who came up playing goofy characters, Woody Harrelson has proven extremely adept at portraying dark, twisted killers ...

Many people conflate addiction and physical dependence, but they are actually quite distinct from each other. After taking a drug ...

Ambrose Bierce was a Civil War soldier turned writer perhaps best known for his pioneering science fiction short stories, as ...

In the mid-90s, a boy from Michigan attempted to make a nuclear reactor in his backyard shed. He exposed his ...

We've all heard about the women's suffrage movement and how women were finally given the right to vote with the ...

When we talk of space, we almost instantly think of globes and spheres and random-shaped debris floating around. So it ...

For most of the 20th century, Eastern Europe had the bad luck to be Russia’s go-to choice for expanding its ...