US Prison Laborers Are The New Slaves
Since the late '70s, US prisons have provided corporations with cheap, plentiful labor in the form of incarcerated people, most...
Since the late '70s, US prisons have provided corporations with cheap, plentiful labor in the form of incarcerated people, most...
Two mathematician brothers, David and Gregory Chudnovsky, have held numerous world records for computing pi to the most decimal places....
You can’t climb Mount Everest on a whim -- permits to travel to the world’s highest mountain cost thousands of...
Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things, chief among them being the 16th United States President and that whole slave...
Comets are made of ice and rock, while asteroids contain no ice and can even contain metal. Smaller asteroids are...
During a peak of violent crime in New York City, ordinary guy Bernhard Goetz made international headlines when he defended...
In what has been dubbed “the greatest art theft of the 20th century," an Italian thief by the name of...
Somewhere around 80 percent of all medical research---the studies that determine what’s good for us and what new drugs are...
Girls as young as five years old are sent to fattening farms in Mauritania where they are forced to consume...
First-time visitors to Paris are occasionally stricken with a disorder characterized by acute delusions, anxiety, feelings of persecution, and various...
There are many classifications, but generally speaking, jelly is made from fruit juice, while jam is made from crushed fruit.
For a long time, it's been pretty well accepted that cats were first domesticated by the ancient Egyptians, who raised...
On July 9, 1962, the US launched a thermonuclear warhead into space from the Pacific Ocean. The resulting explosion turned...
David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist at Imperial College London, has identified molecules that emulate the effects of alcohol consumption. His pill...
Humans actually have four nostrils -- the two nostrils that we’re familiar with on the exterior and two internal nostrils,...
Until 1948, black soldiers served in segregated units in the US military. However, during the final months of the European...
The people of Thailand have chewed the illegal kratom leaf for a cheap high for hundreds of years. The drug...
Everybody loves a psychopath . . . as long as he's on the movie screen. Some of cinema's greatest villains are psychos, but just...
Many people are under the impression that the original vampire is from Transylvania, however, this is not quite accurate. See,...
Bada-bing! The Godfather is widely regarded as one of the best movies of all time. However, Coppola’s film almost never...
There are more possible arrangements in a deck of cards than there are stars in the known universe. The full...
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