Month: December 2015

Ohio only stopped corporal punishment in schools in 2009, and it only stopped in New Mexico in 2011. A few ...

According to the official story, Monopoly was created by an unemployed, down-on-his-luck Charles Darrow. Darrow might have created the game ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, it was legal to mail children through the Post Office in the US. ...

The ideology of an Aryan master race led Nazi Germany to embark on a twisted program of eugenics beginning in ...

Winthrop and Luella Kellogg wanted to know what had happened to feral children to make them feral, so they decided ...

Long before Edward Snowden exposed the NSA, there was William Davidon. A college professor and antiwar activist, Davidon was convinced ...

Many have wondered whether we can form close relationships with our pets that mirror relationships formed with human children. A ...

We all hear about gold, frankincense, and myrrh around Christmastime, but we rarely hear the fascinating history that goes along ...

"Candid Camera" is one of the most famous shows in TV history. Unfortunately, the show’s popularity backfired in a big ...

The prisoner's dilemma presents two people who can't communicate with a complicated test of how well people can work together ...

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is something that we mainly associate with the long winter months and the lack of sunshine. ...

In 1968, the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets were playing a particularly intense game when disaster struck. Since ...

Inflicting pain to feel better seems like a complete contradiction to many people. But studies on the practice of self-harm ...

When astronauts were asked to report on the smell of space, they were actually talking about the smell that followed ...

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, American football was an incredibly popular sport---and it was incredibly brutal. A ...

Greenland is massive. Just look on any old public school map or visit Google maps, and you’ll be able to ...

It's an oft-repeated fact that viruses, not cold weather, make you sick. Research shows, though, that the cold is involved ...

Yellowstone National Park is an iconic American destination. However, in the late 1880s, the park was in big trouble due ...

When the NRA was founded, it was with the goals of teaching marksmanship, preparing citizens for the defense of their ...

The Robert Redford classic Three Days of the Condor is actually based on a novel by James Grady. Grady invented ...

When you hear the word “jihad,” what do you see? Chances are it involves explosions and angry imams screaming about ...