Thomas Jefferson is probably most famous for drafting the Declaration of Independence, but the indelible legal document is just one of many intriguing facts about the man.
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If you are caught with “soft” drugs in the UK, you are now more likely to be prosecuted than if you are caught with “hard” drugs.
Words like “comforting” and “reassuring” don’t seem sufficiently “sexy” praise for a literary work on this scale, but these are the only words to describe its effect (on this reader, at least).
Baby giraffes can stand within hours of birth and zebras can run in the first 45 minutes of life.
Research finds that some early screening for breast cancer may do more harm than good. But that’s what the numbers say. How will women feel?
“We don’t want to make this; Moses is Darth Vader and Jacobs is a perfect angel from heaven.”
This is where neuroscience is answering some important questions and begging entirely new ones.
And out of their struggle, they made a product to help others.
Putting a light on security, and turning it into a conversation.
Albert Einstein gives his surprising perspective on truth to Indian philosopher Rabindranath Tagore.
Star Wars’ Hoth has nothing on the real-life version! “My Lord, the fleet has moved out of lightspeed. Com Scan has detected an energy field protecting an area of the […]
Fish, plants, rocks, and some ornaments? Amateur hour is over; take a look at the results from the International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest! “Life is life’s greatest gift. Guard the […]
The conflict between East and West predates America and Islam, says a book full of cool maps
Prosperity preachers like Creflo Dollar and Joel Osteen are only the latest incarnations of a long lineage of American hucksters.
Coloring books for adults are an intriguing new hobby, breaking into the mainstream like the young-adult fiction boom before them.
Four billion years ago, the Universe was a different place. What would we have seen? “In such moments, offering up his heart at the hour when the flowers of night […]
Are too many taking liberties with the logic of our freedoms? A smart reassessment of Henry David Thoreau’s work spotlights key related issues.
Researchers experiment with gene deletion.
Rubens’ Prometheus literally flips Michelangelo’s Christ on his head to look at art and gods in a whole new way.
I can see it in your eyes. I can see it in your smile.
Vince Lombardi famously once said, “Winners never quit. Quitters never win.” But a new study finds otherwise.
Last year almost 80 billion videos were watched on Pornhub, the world’s largest repository of free online porn. No wonder Playboy has to rethink its revenue stream.
Before NASA’s Dawn spacecraft found white weirdness on Ceres, it had a close encounter with the second largest asteroid: Vesta. “I have announced this star as a comet, but since […]
Penn State and Yale University astronomers, unable to explain strange data patterns they’re observing from a star, have come to the conclusion that there may be an “alien superstructure” orbiting it.
Where is the next catastrophe likely to take place and what might the fallout be?
If all the worlds formed together, they have the ingredients for life, too. Maybe it isn’t just Earth who got lucky. “If I had to describe myself to an alien […]
Why the momentum for a sassy Manhattan billionaire and the upsurge in popularity for a no-nonsense Brooklynite?
Vancouverites are in full revolt over outrageous housing costs and the foreign investors behind North America’s biggest bubble.