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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

The Dodo serves up emotionally and visually compelling, highly sharable animal-related stories and videos to help make caring about animals a viral cause.

The states and territories included in the United States Census Bureau's statistics include the fifty states, the District of Columbia and five permanently inhabited unincorporated island territories, including Puerto Rico.

A self-proclaimed outdoorsman and fisherman recently combined two of his passions - guns and spear fishing - in an effort to create an epic, viral video, but his actions in that video got the attention of officers at FWC and the federal government. 

Nine years after the right portion of her brain was removed, Christina Santhouse considers herself blessed.

The dog Laika, the first living being to orbit the Earth, lives on in our memories along with her lethal Sputnik 2 mission, on which she was an unwitting pioneer in the USSR's space program more than 57 years ago.

The fact that in times of war, significantly more boys are born than girls - also know as the Returning Soldier Effect - is still a mystery for scientists.

A government inquiry is under way after an 11-year-old schoolboy, Liam Corcoran, flew from one of the country’s busiest airports to Europe on his own without a passport, ticket or boarding pass.

In heterosexual relationships, women on average are having fewer orgasms than men — a problem that Dr. Laurie Mintz calls the "orgasm gap".

On May 9, 1945, at 1:10 AM, the citizens of the Soviet Union heard on the radio that Nazi Germany had signed the act of unconditional surrender, which

Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut.

I've read plenty of crazy GPS stories, but this has to be the craziest of them all: a 67-year-old woman drove for 900 miles over the course of two days because of a GPS error combined with her complete lack of attention. Her actual destination was only 90…

From a plague-struck village to Wuhan today, quarantine has helped curb outbreaks for centuries.

A pair of movie tickets and a tub of popcorn cost more than the lowest-grossing movie on this list made.