Say hello to Brian Cronin's little friend as this week he examines whether there's an X-rated director's cut of Brian De Palma's 1983 film <i>Scarface</i>.

The Kengir uprising was a prisoner rebellion that occurred in Kengir (Steplag), a Soviet labor camp for political prisoners, during May and June of 1954. Its duration and intensity distinguished it from other Gulag rebellions during the same period (see Vorkuta…

A question that often confuses animal lovers, is how closely related hyenas might be to dogs. These snickering animals don't seem as doglike as a wolf, but their canine attributes seem to straddle the same gray area that comprises foxes and jackals. However…

prison in La Paz, Bolivia

plan of action following the death of Queen Elizabeth II

We were the first to make the connection between P. gingivalis and fully diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease. While evidence of a link is growing, it must be interpreted in context.

For thousands of years, most people were convinced that birds hibernated in the winter — until a staggeringly resilient stork proved otherwise. Martin Fone explains.

2000 film by Kinji Fukasaku

Tahoe Nuggets are free email bulletins with photos, video, and descriptions of winter storms, hiking, skiing, exploring and much more!

For those of you without grey hair, the index cards on the right are how we organized information back in the dark ages. (Also known as The 80’s.) I found hundreds of them this weekend while cleaning out a closet, kept from the research I did for my dissertation…

(non-Flash version) Trace the dramatic history of human population growth from 2,000 years ago to 50 years into the future.

US Air Force officer

It's not just a myth that the world seems more quiet after a snowfall. There's science behind the silence.

What is it about those funky chunks that make Ben & Jerry’s flavors so inexplicably euphoric? We’re not quite sure, but it sure is working. Get funky with these 10 fun facts.

For most of the last century, nightclubs were supposed to stop the music, turn on the lights, and give clubbers a late-night dinner. That really confused Fatboy Slim.

Chris Petit salutes Lee Server's Baby, I Don't Care, an account of the lazy panache of Robert Mitchum, who was finally beaten by the Hollywood system

Thelma Schoonmaker, on the eve of receiving a Bafta fellowship, discusses the art of film editing and her 50-year career

"Count" Victor Lustig once sold the Eiffel Tower to an unsuspecting scrap-metal dealer. Then he started thinking really big

Charles Darwin, while trying to devise a general theory of heredity from the observations of animal and plant breeders, discovered that domesticated mammals possess a distinctive and unusual suite of heritable traits not seen in their wild progenitors. ...