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Men are from Mars and insist on turning up the air conditioning; women are from Venus and always complain of being cold. In a world striving for gender equality, is there something holding us back from liberty and comfortable temperatures for all, or is i
Roma Panganiban|
There's always someone around to offer marital advice, but historically, words of wisdom to wives have a tendency to be daft and maddening.
Therese Oneill|
One location + no budget = some of television’s finest moments.
Jennifer M Wood|
The architecture of sentences can be a beautiful thing.
Arika Okrent|
A sharp knife is undoubtedly the handiest tool you can slip into your pocket, but a dull one is a disaster waiting to happen.
Editorial Staff|
August 7, 1913: France Passes Three-Year Service Law Beneath all the diplomatic maneuvering and bellicose blustering, Franco-German relations in the pre-war period were dominated by a single, inescapable fact: Germany’s larger population, the product of i
Erik Sass|
Everyone knows what a computer is, right? It's electronic, high-tech and digital. It's only existed for the last 50 or 60 years. It has defined the word "modern" in “modern world.” And it’s given hackers a useful role to play in big-budget action movies.
Clay Wirestone|
Animal smugglers have some serious baggage.
Amanda Green|
Matt Soniak|
How does Ariel Castro's prison sentence—a millennium and then some—stack up against other stints in the clink?
Matt Soniak|
Some things you might not know about the War Between the States.
Eric Johnson|
In addition to the Chinese, French, and Swahili versions, you can find unusual translations into other languages, from real-life tongues to fictional ones.
Chris Stokel-Walker|
Most people’s fundraising experience ends at running a race for charity or selling candy for a good cause—but if you really want to go big with your efforts, you need to think outside of the box. Here are a few of the weirdest charity stunts ever performe
Jill Harness|
Here's what went into some of the most recognizable album covers in music history.
Bill DeMain|
Here are some of the more peculiar questions that people have pondered over the decades.
Mark Juddery|
Shark Cam makes its debut in the Shark Week special "Return of Jaws" tonight at 9 p.m. EST on the Discovery Channel; we talked to Skomal about developing the robot and what it revealed that traditional tracking methods did not.
Erin McCarthy|
Matt Soniak|
Who are the scientists and doctors behind some of our most famous diseases and conditions? Here are a few of the physicians and their eponymous ailments.
Ethan Trex|
When Walt Disney’s daughters were young, they loved a little book about a magical (and slightly sadistic) nanny named Mary Poppins. He promised them that he would someday make a movie out of the series, and 20 years later, he delivered. But it was no easy
Stacy Conradt|
Polite society told Alice Huyler Ramsey that women shouldn’t drive. So she motored across the country to prove them wrong.
the mag|
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