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Lease a Haunted Venetian Island for 99 Years
Formerly a quarantine island for plague victims and an insane asylum, now you can call this island home
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Schools Ban Chocolate Milk; Kids Just Stop Drinking Milk Altogether
Kids wind up consuming less protein and wasting more milk when skim is all that’s on the shelves
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How Gabriel Garcia Marquez Became a Writer
Marquez attributed his writing to drawing as a child…and Franz Kafka
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The U.K. Is Weirdly Obsessed With Rhea Birds—Which Keep Escaping Their Owners
A rhea went on the lam in the U.K.—and is far from the first giant, flightless bird to do so
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Instead of Paying for Coffee, Mobile Workers Can Pay for Quiet
Working on the road? Now there’s an alternative to crowded coffee shops
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Real-Life True Blood Might Be Used in Trial Transfusions by 2016
Researchers in the U.K. have created the first man-made red blood cells of high enough quality to be introduced into the human body
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The Big “Gravitational Wave” Finding May Have Actually Just Been Some Dust
A supernova remnant interacting with interstellar dust could have caused the signals interpreted to be gravitational waves
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Missouri Wants to Use Military-Grade Sound Cannons to Slow Drivers Down
The LRAD sound cannon has been used to subdue protests, deter pirates and, now, slow down speeding drivers.
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Ancient Walls Show That Rome Is Older Than Legend
Romulus and Remus were 100 years late to the party
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Pot Smokers’ Brains Are Different
But we can’t say for sure whether it’s pot that made them that way
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5 Great Historical Myths And Traditions About Hot Cross Buns, a Pre-Easter Pastry
From solidifying friendships to driving evil spirits away, legends abound about these sweet dough balls
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A Militant Group Is Fighting to Keep Nigerian Students From Education
Islamic extremists from the group Boko Haram have kidnapped 200 girls from a boarding school
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Marijuana Grow Ops Are Drying Out California’s Water Supply
Illegal marijuana grow ops use thousands of gallons of water a day
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Dogs That Should Be Guarding Sheep Are Mating With Wolves Instead
Intimate encounters between dogs and wolves are relatively common in Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains
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Pretty Soon, Video Games Will Be Able to Read Your Emotions
Video games are becoming increasingly adept at reading our emotions
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New York Once Had an Entire District for Typography
Downtown New York used to have an entire neighborhood of type foundries, before they all disappeared
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We Might Hit Our Cognitive Peak Before 24
As we age beyond about 24, we become mentally slower and slower
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Which of These Two Alaskan Glaciers Is Better to Visit?
As one glacier melts, locals are pushing for tourists to visit rival pile of ice
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