Dissociative Identity Disorder was known as multiple personality disorder until a case of mass hysteria brought on by the movie-mad public and unscrup...
While evolution gets all the spotlight for moving species into better versions of themselves, but really it's natural selection that is the engine dri...
Charles Darwin wasn't the first or only scientist to grasp the theory of evolution through natural selection, but he became its father and icon. Learn...
They are among the more reviled concepts of modern life, and yet they are as inevitable as death. Join Josh and Chuck as they look into the history an...
With 3D printing you can print not just pictures and words, but actual objects from files. And as costs come down, the list of things you can print ex...
Landslides are a form of mass movement of the Earth, and with the amount of death and destruction they wreak on the people and towns they cover, their...
Those movies where someone gets hit on the head and can't remember who they are anymore? They're actually not too far off from the reality of amnesia....
It is literally all around you (and even inside you) - electricity makes up the basis of modern life. But what exactly is electricity and how does it...
Most Europeans first encountered tattoos after sailors visiting the South Pacific returned covered in them. From then on, with a few notable exception...
Black boxes are designed to be the only survivor of plane crashes so they can live to tell the tale of what went wrong to prevent future accidents. Le...
Skateboarding started out as something bored surfers did when the waves weren't breaking, but after a few improvements to the design, it took off like...
No longer weird, possibly still desperate and approaching normal, online dating's been around almost as long as the Internet itself. So what exactly i...
The idea of pious monks imbued with unbridled power and with a penchant for dealing torture and death is a scary one indeed, and one both Spain and th...
On May 4, 1970, four days of anti-war protests at Kent State University in Ohio culminated in the unthinkable when Ohio guardsmen opened fire on prote...
Their soft white bodies look creepy and, to be sure, they are, but termites are pretty amazing bugs. They build ventilation systems into their mounds,...
Amputation is one of the oldest surgeries and an even older punishment for crime, but it wasn't until the American Civil War and its 50,000 amputation...
A Roman senator once said, "Mankind can live without gold, but not without salt." Right he was. The human body needs salt so much we have developed a...
You know the cavemen, a race of human cousins who lived exclusively in caves? They didn't exist. Sure prehistoric hominids used caves sometimes but th...
Since Sartre classified things that make us happy into the categories of having and doing, science took up the investigation into materialism and expe...
It wasn't until the was developed and despite its co-existence alongside English, a user would be hard-pressed to sign with a British person. Find ou...
