"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans; many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful…

By CLIFTON K MEADOR, MD   In the spring of 1938, Dr. Drayton Doherty admitted a sixty-year-old African –American man to the hospital. The small hospital was located at the edge of town in an old house that had been converted into a fifteen-bed hospital. Six…

Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage which emphasizes the difficulty of debunking bullshit: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

A homeless man did not commit a crime when he stole small quantities of food, an Italian court rules, because he clearly acted out of need.

Seventy-eight years after his death, an old Torquemada puzzle returns, with a hefty prize for the first to solve it. Could you identify both the killers and the victims?

Judge Robert Durham agreed with Nike's attorneys and dismissed the convicted pimp's lawsuit before it could progress to trial.

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The number of cyberattacks is increasing every year and anyone can become a victim. Your parents, your friends, your colleagues... and even you. But what if... what if you the coolest…

If you spend all your time doing scientific research in a frozen tundra, one might suspect you’d be less likely to enjoy a film about a bunch of alien parasites who brutally murder scientists doing research in a frozen tundra. You’d be wrong, because that’s…

On 24 October 1975, Icelandic women went on strike for the day to "demonstrate the indispensable work of women for Iceland’s economy and society" and to "protest wage discrepancy and unfair employment practices". It was then publicized domestically as Women's…

American actor and comedian

The Falkland Islands wolf (Dusicyon australis), also known as the warrah (/ˈwɑːrə/ WAH-rə or /ˈwɑːrɑː/ WAH-rah) and occasionally as the Falkland Islands dog, Falkland Islands fox, or Antarctic wolf, was the only native land mammal of the Falkland Islands.…

1910s 200 mm mortar of British origin

Russian Internet meme

Liam Neeson has revealed that his late wife Natasha Richardson is 'keeping three people alive' after donating her organs following her shock death.

'We were literally doing fake coke for, like, seven months, every day' 

In December 1777, the Moroccan Sultan Muhammad III included the United States in a list of countries to which Morocco’s ports were open. Morocco thus became the first country whose head of state publicly recognized the newly independent United States.[failed…

American actor

Sean Bell

American writer

Collective name for environmentally devastated WWI battlefields in northeast France