Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

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Michael Carroll won nearly £10 million on the National Lottery and squandered the lot within 8 years. Read the complete story of the notorious winner here!

The Buddhas of Bamiyan have revealed oil paints being used to decorate associated caves in the mid 7th century AD

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Jazz guitar’s resident shaman pulls back the curtain on his latest album, Formidable, and his complicated—yet inspiring—relationship with his instrument.

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As Winnie-the-Pooh has been proving for the best part of a century, honey is absolutely awesome. Deliciously sweet, incredibly healthy and almost indestructible, few foods can claim to have contributed more to human eating habits over the course of our history…

A bridge built especially for squirrels to be able to cross a busy motorway in the Netherlands – which cost €150,000 (£120,000) to construct – has been used five times since its erection, according

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Your eyes work hard from the moment you wake up, constantly taking in information. Learn more about your peepers with these 51 amazing facts about your eyes.

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For years there has been an urban legend in Halifax about "Glove Guy," who would pick up drunk young men and ask them to try on his gloves.

There are a lot of barriers to changing your mind: ego, overconfidence, inertia — and cost. Politicians who flip-flop get mocked; family and friends who cross tribal borders are shunned. But shouldn’t we be encouraging people to change their minds? And how…

The discovery doctrine or doctrine of discovery is a concept of public international law expounded by the United States Supreme Court in a series of decisions, most notably Johnson v. M'Intosh in 1823. Chief Justice John Marshall explained and applied the…

In 1797 a Prussian researcher, Alexander von Humboldt, carried out thousands of experiments using electricity - including one using his own rectum.

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Inside the vault that holds the largest collection of agricultural biodiversity