What’s Behind Russia’s Revival of a Soviet-Era Song Contest?
At the Applebee’s test kitchen in Kansas City, Mo., nine full-time chefs collaborate to create that certain “menu magic” that entices millions of diners every year. The ultimate test is...
Newer homes and furniture burn faster, giving you less time to escape a fire
Research shows that 30 years ago, you had about about 17 minutes to escape a house fire. Today it’s down to 3 or 4 minutes. The reason: Newer homes and...
Duff McKagan, Guns N’ Capital
Former Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan moonlights as an investment guru Business majors can party. They can get wasted, wake up the next morning, hit 18 holes, and still...
Five Things You Never Knew About’I’m Lovin’ It’
Will the 11-year-old “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle-an earworm if ever there was one-soon be just a memory? After all, McDonald’s recently hired ad agency Leo Burnett to refresh its image....
Hero cat saves baby from freezing to death
Eat your heart out, Lassie! Masha, a long-haired tabby cat, saved the life of a baby abandoned in the streets of Russia – after she climbed into the box he...
Ten Ways That Carter Influenced Translation – and Vice Versa
Can translation shape a presidency? As I argue in a new book, Found in Translation, it can influence the world as we know it. So, it shouldn’t be difficult to...
Turn Signal Neglect A Continuing Problem In The US
A recent in-depth study by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) of turn signal rates-of-neglect has yielded some surprising and somewhat disturbing results. The study reveals just how rampant the...
Cheetah-Dog Friendship Isn’t As Strange As It Sounds
Raising puppies and cheetah kittens together helps refocus the big cats’ nervous energy, zoos have discovered. Mixed-species friendships are all the rage these days, even between infamously mortal enemies like...
Penguin Swims 8,000KM Every Year To See The Man Who Saved His Life
“Everyone said he wouldn’t return but he has been coming back to visit me for the past four years” It’s illegal for you to keep wild animals as pets in...
In 1975, a Cat Co-Authored a Physics Paper
When one reads a physics paper in an esteemed journal, one does not generally wonder if it was written by a cat. But such was the case for an article...
China bans ‘erotic’ banana-eating live streams
Chinese live-streaming services have banned people filming themselves eating bananas in a “seductive” fashion. New regulations mean that live-streaming sites must monitor all their output round-the-clock to ensure nothing untoward...
Biotech firm creates fake rhino horn to reduce poaching
A San Francisco biotech startup has managed to 3D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. It plans to flood Chinese market with...
93% of the Great Barrier Reef is now damaged by coral bleaching
A new survey has confirmed pretty much every environmentalist’s worst fears, revealing that 93 percent of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has already been damaged by coral bleaching. We just have...
Charlie Sheen Once Bought 2,600+ Outfield Seats At An Angels’ Game Because He Wanted To Catch A Home Run Ball
Charlie Sheen has been making a bit of news this week with outlandish comments on TV and radio appearances, but his bizarre behavior is nothing new. In 1996, Sports Illustrated...
‘Chewy 123’: FBI’s most-wanted cybercriminal used cat’s name as password
Once the FBI’s most-wanted cybercriminal, Jeremy Hammond is serving one of the longest sentences a US hacker has received – 10 years, the maximum allowed under his plea agreement. But...
The Story of One Whale Who Tried to Bridge the Linguistic Divide Between Animals and Humans
While captive in a Navy program, a beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech. What was behind his attempt to talk to us? Millions of years before we...
Flashback 1996: Man sues Pepsi for not giving him a Harrier Jet
As you get ready to take in Super Bowl ads, let this 1996 “CBS Evening News” story serve as a reminder to not believe every spot you see – especially...
Two Girls, a Golden Balloon, and Fate
Chance is a strange thing. Over the course of history, truly astonishing things have happened – the man who won the lottery twice in one day, or the woman who...
The Necessity of Stress
The Biosphere 2 project was created as a research tool for scientists to study Earth’s living systems, and it allowed scientists to play with farming and innovation in a way...
René Descartes Biography
Philosopher and mathematician René Descartes is regarded as the father of modern philosophy for defining a starting point for existence, “I think; therefore I am.” Synopsis René Descartes was born...