14 Reasons WWI Happened (And Four Things That Could Have Stopped It)
Erik Sass has been covering the events of WWI exactly 100 years later. Here's a look back at how we got here.
Erik Sass has been covering the events of WWI exactly 100 years later. Here's a look back at how we got here.
Even logophiles can improve their vocabularies by following these Twitter accounts.
From Dartmouth style beer pong to on-set head butts, here are 10 things the directors and cast told us about making '22 Jump Street,' out today.
Even if you're not a fan of sports or popular culture, there's probably a podcast out there that's right up your alley.
Johnny Depp isn’t the only actor the ’80s teen crime show turned into a star.
Sometimes Facebook status updates are a little more interesting. And by “interesting,” we mean “criminal.”
We hear a lot of bad stories about cheap tippers and even cruel tippers, but it’s a lot rarer to hear about excessive and genuinely kind tippers. Fortunately, such people are out there.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry didn't come by the phrase "What is essential is invisible to the eye" easily.
We wanted to do one fact about Minnesota for each of its lakes, but 10,000 facts seemed like overkill.
A few fun facts about Masschusetts to break out at your next Boston Tea Party.
We sat down with three industry leaders—Todd Masters of MastersFX and Michael Spatola and Lee Joyner of the Cinema Makeup School—to get the inside scoop on some little-known facts behind the craft and some intriguing details on the makings of some of our
If fuzzy action movie science worked in real life, becoming a brand-new superhero would—with a little help from the animal kingdom—just be a quick organ transplant away.
Tattooing has become a legitimate art form. And, like art, something magical happens when design and function meet.
The cookiecutter is already a cinematic star thanks to a supporting role in the 2011 horror film Shark Night 3D, but there’s a lot about this rarely-seen shark that’s still a mystery. Here are a few things we do know.
Twenty years ago, it was impossible for most of us to listen to JRR Tolkien read Elvish or see Zelda Fitzgerald grin at a camera or hear an inebriated Hemingway shout about pigeons. But today, these and other rare recordings of famous authors are just a m
Few things are more baffling than an outdated political cartoon. Jokes about history lessons you don’t remember are presented in a style that is usually disturbing, if not flat out terrifying. So here’s the game: We encourage historically inclined readers
A skeuomorph is an object or feature that imitates the design of an older similar object, just for show.
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Were those prices as cheap as they sound in retrospect, or were they on par with what we’d pay today?
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These contestants made headlines for flouting the rules or beating the system.
These headlines were kind of boring. You'll never guess what happened next.
A little fiscal etymology.