YOUR BRAIN STAYS HALF AWAKE WHEN YOU SLEEP IN A NEW PLACE
If you’ve ever slept in a hotel, gone camping, or even slept over at a friend’s pad, chances are you’ve woken up the next day feeling groggy and bleary-eyed. Even...
Air Canada flight finds stranded Australian yacht
They were ready to land in Australia, at the end of a 14-hour international flight, when the 270 passengers of an Air Canada flight were suddenly thrown into a high-seas...
Smoky The Yorkshire Terrier Was Probably The Cutest Service Member In WWII
This is Smoky, a female Yorkshire Terrier that served in World War II. Taken on Biak Island, Indonesia in Sept. 1944. About 5,000 enemy soldiers were trapped in caves two...
Meet Temar Boggs, rescuer of a kidnapped little girl
Temar Boggs is a 15-year-old student who lives in Lancaster, Pa. He loves playing sports, hanging out with friends, skateboarding and biking. Add “being a hero” to the list. Temar...
Stranger Than Fiction: Jack the Signalman
During the latter part of the 1800s, travelers to Cape Town, South Africa, along the Port Elizabeth Mainline Railroad frequently saw a curious sight as they entered the train station....
Giant Tortoises
I look on the hieroglyph, weaving a dream… While the dark giant tortoise crept on ‘mid their stems, Never heeding the plash of the bright-dropping gems. Giant Tortoises Today In...
That Time Europe Air-Dropped Vaccine-Loaded Chicken Heads to Bait Rabid Foxes
The events that led teams of helicopter-borne vets to pelt the Swiss countryside with vaccine-impregnated chicken heads began in 1939. Two things were then sweeping through Poland: the Nazis, and...
Frasier’s dog Eddie dies aged 16
Moose the dog, better known as Eddie in US sitcom Frasier, has died aged 16 in Los Angeles, his trainer has said. The Jack Russell terrier passed away of old...
Satirical site The Onion is now worth more than most of the real news outlets it mocks
SATIRICAL NEWS SITE The Onion – known for headlines like’World Death Rate Holding Steady at 100 Percent’ – has been valued at half a billion dollars, more than most of...
How One Cougar Can Plant 94,000 Seeds a Year
Cougars are great gardeners. You won’t see them carefully pruning bonsai trees with their claws or paging through a Burpee seed catalog, but scientists say that one of these bigs...
17 Fascinating Facts About Nintendo Legend Shigeru Miyamoto
When industrial design major Shigeru Miyamoto went to work designing arcade cabinets for Nintendo in 1976, there was little indication he would become what TIME would later call the “Steven...
Real-world doctors fact-check Dr. Oz, and the results aren’t pretty
Dr. Mehmet Oz and his daily talk show come under fire from Canadian researchers, who say only one-third of the recommendations made on the program can be supported by medical...
Long Ago, a Pilot Landed on an Uptown Street. That’s Where the Bar Was
A plane sat on 191st Street in 1956 after its wings were removed for shipment. The pilot landed the craft on St. Nicholas Avenue, rear, as part of a barroom...
‘Butt’ is an actual unit of measurement
The imperial system is a funny thing. Like, really funny. So funny that there is actually a unit of measurement for wine (or whiskey) casks called a “butt.” That means...
Academics Write Papers Arguing Over How Many People Read (And Cite) Their Papers
There are a lot of scientific papers out there. One estimate puts the count at 1.8 million articles published each year, in about 28,000 journals. Who actually reads those papers?...
Mega Millions Winners Might Not Be So Lucky: Jack Whittaker and More Unlucky Lotto Winners
Are you bummed that you didn’t win the $640 million Mega Millions jackpot? Don’t be-it turns out winning the lottery can often be a terrible curse. From Jack Whittaker, who...
15,000 People In The Czech Republic Say Their Religion Is ‘Knights Of The Jedi’
The force is strong in the Czech Republic. In a recent census, more than 15,000 people in the Czech Republic listed their religion as “Knights of the Jedi,” the Hollywood...
The Harvard Library That Protects The World’s Rarest Colors
The most unusual colors from Harvard’s storied pigment library include beetle extracts, poisonous metals, and human mummies. Today, every color imaginable is at your fingertips. You can peruse paint swatches...
How a movie changed one man’s vision forever
Bruce Bridgeman lived with a flat view of the world, until a trip to the cinema unexpectedly rewired his brain to see the world in 3D. The question is how...
IDAHO TEACHER TRIES TO MOVE FORWARD AFTER SEX ED COMPLAINT
DIETRICH – Tim McDaniel’s world turned upside down in 2013. The Dietrich science teacher found out four parents filed an ethics complaint against him as a result of a sex...