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Future Buildings Could Use Lasers to Fight Off Lightning
Shooting a laser beam in the path of lightning could help divert it from the building
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The American Dream Doesn’t Mean the Same Thing to White People And Minorities
While many see the American Dream including a home, not everybody thinks about that home the same way
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Ice-Age Bees Uncovered at the La Brea Tar Pits
The samples were actually excavated back in 1970, but were set aside because there wasn't a way to analyze them at the time
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Message in a Bottle, Found in the Baltic Sea, Is 100 Years Old
While this new Baltic bottle will probably take the prize for oldest verified message in a bottle, it's probably not actually the oldest
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Almost 2 Million People Ran a U.S. Half Marathon Last Year—And Most of Them Were Women
Fitness trendsters, take note: it’s about time you go run 13.1 miles
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French Workers Don't Have It As Easy As Brits Want to Believe
New rules allow some workers time off, but don't demand anybody turn off their phones when they go home
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110 Years Ago, Times Square Got Its Name: Celebrate by Browsing Old Photos of NYC
Thanks to a new release of images from the New York City Municipal Archives, you can see what the city looked like before it was consumed by neon
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Horses Can Do Yoga
"The method is to tame the horse according to its nature , avoiding cause fear and pain, and by earning their trust and loyalty"
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Lawyers Who Make Less Money And Get Worse Grades Are the Happiest
Money can't buy you happiness, even if you're a lawyer
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This Winter Was Hard on Animals, Too
As tough as it was on humans, it may have been even harder on the animals who don’t get to curl up in front of the fire
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Microsoft Is Killing XP, But 75 Percent of ATMs Still Use It
420,000 ATMs are about to become easy targets for hackers
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Nearly Half of Americans Believe At Least One Conspiracy Theory
William S. Burroughs once said, “Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.”
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An Effort to Crack Down on Fake Yelp Reviews Goes to Supreme Court
About 20 percent of reviews on Yelp might be fraudulent. But should Yelp have to disclose the identities of its reviewers?
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Combat Juggling Is Your New Favorite Sport, Now That You Know It Exists
The premise of combat juggling is pretty simple: juggle three items, and try to get your opponent to drop his three
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People Use Bike Shares to Get to Work And Parties
Now is probably a good time to say that biking while drunk is never a good idea
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Here’s How Neuroscientists in the 1800s Studied Blood Flow in the Brain
New translations of early neuroscience reveal how in 1882 one Italian physiologist was able to measure blood flow changes in the brain
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Some Visions of the Crucifixion Aren't T-Shaped
Jesus and others who were crucified didn’t necessarily die with their arms pinned straight out, the way we often imagine them
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The Majority of Web Traffic Comes From Robots
While humans may be very good at surfing the internet, this is yet another thing that robots do better
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Children Have to Worry About Identity Theft, Too
The rate of identity theft is five times higher among children than among adults
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Language Discrimination Goes Beyond Just Grammar
Even when candidates are all equally qualified, employers pick native speakers over those born abroad
