Women around the world suffer from two problems that we don't think about much in the US. In many parts of the world, menstruation is seen as gross, unclean, or… Read the rest of the article: What we can learn from a Bollywood blockbuster about periods

In 2004, the sandwich chain Quiznos enlisted Joel Veitch's Spongmonkeys for their TV advertisements. What happened then illustrates the great divide at the time between those who were connected with… Read the rest of the article: The weirdest corporate mascot of all time

If you are American and have nothing else in the refrigerator, you probably have mustard and ketchup. Even if you don't use them often, it's nice to have them available.… Read the rest of the article: A brief history of ketchup and mustard

In the early 20th century, prizefighting was even more uncivilized than it is now. While fights between Black boxers and white boxers drew crowds, heavyweight title fights were segregated. There… Read the rest of the article: The boxing film that was banned around the world

At the turn of the 20th century, Thomas Edison experimented with an electric car. It was not the first electric car, but Edison's battery was different. This battery had its… Read the rest of the article: The battery invented 120 years before its time

The meme that just won't die has gotten the LEGO treatment! LEGO artist Ochre Jelly went ahead and put his toy pixels to work and created sculptures of the Hollywood… Read the rest of the article: "Woman Yelling at Cat" in LEGO

Juanita Moody dropped out of college in 1943 to serve in the US Signal Intelligence Service, decoding encrypted messages during World War II. She stayed on after the war, rising… Read the rest of the article: The once-classified tale of Juanita Moody and the Cuban Missile Crisis

"You Give Love a Bad Name" by Bon Jovi was a catchy song, but you know what it needs? A disco beat! Shahar Varshal mashed it up with Boney M's… Read the rest of the article: You Give Love A Bad Rasputin

Liam Thorp, the political editor of the Liverpool Echo, got a notice from the National Health Service that he needed to come in for a COVID vaccine. Thorp is 32… Read the rest of the article: How a British journalist became "the Morbidly Obese Pancake Man"

Black-footed ferrets were in danger of going completely extinct in the 1980s. Scientists collected the few ferrets they could find in Wyoming for a breeding program, which has been successful,… Read the rest of the article: Meet Elizabeth Ann, the first clone of an endangered American species

Glaciologist and climate scientist Megan Thompson-Munson wants to correct the popular image of icebergs. Yes, 90% of an iceberg is underwater, but they don't float the way you see them… Read the rest of the article: Draw your own iceberg and see if it flips

Researchers from UNSW Sydney and the South Australian Museum have been studying the rings of ancient New Zealand kauri trees, which can record environmental changes over many thousands of years.… Read the rest of the article: Ancient relic points to a turning point in Earth's history 42,000 years ago

Fossils tell us a lot about extinct animals from millions of years ago, but DNA sequencing can tell us a lot more, especially when the fossils they come from are… Read the rest of the article: Oldest DNA sequenced yet comes from million-year-old mammoths

The US government, in setting standards for food quality based on appearance, also shaped our perception of what is acceptable to eat. This does not always line up with reality.… Read the rest of the article: Why the U.S. government decides the color of our food

Tom Ruegger wrote a picture book in the rhythmic rhyming style of Dr. Seuss called Will You Wear A Mask? I Ask. A store clerk tries to enforce mask-wearing on… Read the rest of the article: Mark Hamill gives voice to "Will You Wear A Mask? I Ask"

There are many kinds of walls, and even among those built on a country estate, designs vary according to their purpose. One rather ingenious wall design is the ha-ha, possibly… Read the rest of the article: The ingenuity of the 'ha-ha'

The playground staple known as the giant stride rose in popularity with playgrounds themselves around the turn of the 20th century. It was simply a sturdy pole with a wheel… Read the rest of the article: Why you can't play on history's most thrilling piece of playground equipment

The serial killers you know are those you either remember from the news or have seen a movie about: Richard Ramirez, David Berkowitz, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey… Read the rest of the article: Why were there so many serial killers between 1970 and 2000?

While the Soviet Union under Stalin did plenty of internal ethnic cleansing, it also attempted to present a carefully curated vision of equality to the West, in contrast to America.… Read the rest of the article: The great African American escape to Soviet Russia

There's nothing as relatable as a Star Wars analogy to explain something totally unrelated. Randall Munroe goes back to the original Star Wars movie (now called A New Hope) to… Read the rest of the article: Explaining an mRNA vaccine with Star Wars