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9 racist and offensive phrases that people still use all the time
If there's anything the last year has shown, it's that racial tension is still a reality in America.But sometimes people use racist and offensive phrases without even realizing it.Bigoted sentiments...
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Terrorists in Tunisia attacked one of the world's greatest collections of...
The siege of Tunisia's Bardo Museum is over. Terrorists in military uniform took over the museum in downtown Tunis, taking hostages and killing as many as 19 people. Two terrorists and a security...
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The history of the US at war, in one infographic
War has played a significant role in American history. Ever since the country's first war as a sovereign nation against the British Empire in 1812, the US's process for declaring and waging war has...
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8 things you never knew about wine
From King Tut’s tomb and drunken Romans to Norse Viking voyages, wine has a rich and surprising history.You might know your Merlot from your Malbec, but brushing up on this collection of little-known...
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Archaeology has had an amazing month: Here are 7 of the most exciting...
When they aren't digging up ancient graves or unearthing the body parts of early human ancestors, archaeologists are combing the Earth for clues about how the people who came before us lived, worked,...
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70 years on, Japan and the US remember an epic Iwo Jima battle
When Yoshitaka Shindo was a boy, he did not hear much from his family about his grandfather Tadamichi Kuribayashi, commander of the Japanese troops who fought in the bloody battle of Iwo Jima.The...
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A chilling look inside a former Soviet gulag
At the height of the gulag system, millions of Russians were imprisoned and put into forced labor. The gulag system housed citizens ranging from wayward peasants to political dissidents. Each year...
View ArticleAn unexploded World War II bomb has been found in London
An unexploded German World War II bomb has been found in London, NBC News reports citing London police and fire officials. The unexploded bomb was found in the Bermondsey district of South London,...
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Why the pages of old books and newspapers turn yellow
When I was a kid, my parents had a collection of historic old, yellowed newspapers. For example, I distinctly remember an old Washington Post newspaper sitting on a bookshelf from July 21, 1969 with...
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The real Paleo diet reveals that our ancestors ate just about everything
Reconstructions of human evolution are prone to simple, overly-tidy scenarios.Our ancestors, for example, stood on two legs to look over tall grass, or began to speak because, well, they finally had...
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Meet the forgotten patriarch who started the Bush family dynasty
The Bush family has been on something of a roll for the past five generations.If we trace the lineage back to the mid-19th century, we see that the dynasty came to dominate in railroad, finance, and...
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Why successful people build careers like Leonardo da Vinci
Most college career advisors wouldn't know what to do with Leonardo da Vinci. He didn't fit the mold of today's "high achievers"— going to school for law, medicine, or management, and then dedicating...
View ArticleWe went inside a secret basement under Grand Central that was one of the...
Hidden ten stories below Grand Central Terminal, a secret basement can be found. This basement was a prime New York City target during World War II, as it provided electricity for northeast trains...
View ArticleThis animated map shows how European languages evolved
The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists.In 2012, a team of evolutionary biologists at the University of Auckland led by Dr. Quentin Atkinson...
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Ex KGB officer: Putin's been lying about what his rank really was within the KGB
Vladimir Putin is merely posing as a lieutenant colonel.The Russian president also oversaw war crimes in Chechnya and helped frame a prosecutor-general to derail a probe into massive Kremlin...
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The strange history of April Fool’s Day
Have you ever stopped to think WHY you're Saran Wrapping a toilet seat on April Fools' Day?Do you think the first time a man pranked his neighbor everyone reveled in the delight of it so much they...
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The world's most dangerous pathway just reopened to the public after 15 years...
You know you're in for a thrill when a related Google search for "Caminito del Rey" suggests "death toll."Called the world's most dangerous trail, Caminito del Rey is a roughly five-mile walkway that...
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3 life lessons Neil deGrasse Tyson swears by
Astrophysicists probe the nature of our universe — a place too vast and grand for a single human mind to fully comprehend — and while that might make some feel small, Neil deGrasse Tyson has said time...
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This is the chair Lincoln was shot in 150 years ago today
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Jeff Buczkiewicz stood before the chair Abraham Lincoln was sitting in when he was assassinated 150 years ago. He peered silently into the glass-enclosed case at the rocking...
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A group of artists placed a statue of Snowden over a tomb containing...
A group of as-yet unidentified artists affixed a bust of NSA leaker Edward Snowden atop a column along the edges of the Prison Ship Martyr's Monument in Brooklyn's Fort Green neighborhood on April 6th...
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