Many of us have been there before. The train slows, and we hear the Conductor announce: “Ladies and gentlemen, we are being delayed by freight train traffic ahead.” Freight trains...

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At Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico on December 10, 1954, the Sonic Wind No. 1 rocket sled let loose 40,000 pounds of thrust and propelled United States Air Force flight surgeon Col. John Stapp more than 3,000 feet in a few seconds. The benefits of Stapp’s…

From Bond to The Batman, films are nearing the leg-crossing, buttock-numbing three-hour mark. Bring back the interval, says our writer, and a golden era of cinema will follow

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Peter "Peter Pasta" Pellegrino, formerly of the Babylon, New York, restaurant Peter’s Italian Restaurant, really is -- or was -- a gangster.

Anyone who grew up in the 90s may recognize Johnny Yong Bosch as Adam Park, the second Black Ranger from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. However, Bosch has

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A Florida man choked to death in October after eating dozens of live cockroaches in a contest to win a python, an autopsy finds.

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Stored fresh vegetables have lower vitamin C content than frozen. Research scientists have examined and compared nutrients in frozen and fresh vegetables.

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Paragliding high above a beautiful landscape is already a bucket list item, but doing it alongside an Egyptian vulture might bump it up to the top of the list. Pioneered by Scott Mason, who has been training birds since he was ten, parahawking consists of…

Scientist finds mushrooms' electric pulses could be organized into "trains" that resemble human words, and a vocabulary appears to be present.

Remembering legendary opera singer/umpire Enrico Pallazzo

Some mistakes are harder to erase.

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