“I’m saving my right hand for the Lakers.” Bird was truly in his prime at the time.

Read 10 little-known facts about the drama-filled making of Fleetwood Mac's 1977 masterpiece, 'Rumours.'

The Bloodbath of B-R5RB or the Battle of B-R5RB was a massive-scale virtual battle fought in the MMORPG space game EVE Online in January 2014 (YC 116 in-game), possibly the largest player-versus-player battle in history at the time. The 21-hour-long conflict…

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These people aren’t insensitive robots, mind you. Rather, they've been shown to possess a neurological condition that researchers call musical anhedonia...

New archaeological research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found that Homo erectus, an extinct species of primitive humans, went extinct in part because they were 'lazy'.

Andy Warhol. Blow Job. 1964. 16mm film transferred to video (black and white, silent). 41 min. at 16 fps. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1983. Courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Digital…

A new exhibit at the Imperial War Museum uses seismic data collected during the war to recreate the moment the Armistice went into effect

Read 10 little-known facts about the drama-filled making of Fleetwood Mac's 1977 masterpiece, 'Rumours.'

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Hummingbirds are tiny (and I mean, tiny) birds. They use up energy very quickly and barely store any fat, so they really don’t have a backup generator to rely on if they come close to running out of fuel. I’m really interested in how they manage this limited…

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The Dai Hong Dan incident took place on 29 October 2007, when North Korean cargo vessel MV Dai Hong Dan was attacked and temporarily seized by Somali pirates off Somalia. The following day, the crew of the vessel overpowered the pirates with the support of…

PDF | Herodotus' account of the Athenian spear carrier Epizelus' psychogenic mutism following the Marathon Wars is usually cited as the first documented... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

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Everyone has expensive taste. When a bottle of wine costs more, our brains will actually trick us into liking it more, according to a new study from the University of Bonn. Researchers tapped 15 men

A boy apparently traveled from San Jose, California, to Maui, Hawaii, in the landing gear wheel well of a Boeing 767.