No one wants their sports heroes to be mere mortals. Not when they can be golden gods, capable of feats the rest of us lowly humans could only dream of. No mere mortal can stick that landing, run that 4.7 40, or […]

Ah, race car driving. The gasoline-powered sweet science. America’s favorite pastime to experience at 200 miles per hour. All the best left turns you could ask for. If competitive sports are an amusement park, […]

NBA action, it’s fantastic!
That’s one of the league’s old catchphrases from the 1980s, and it still rings true. In addition to being fantastic, things in the NBA can also get pretty dang strange, especially once […]

consequential moments in modern human history. Presidents, from the admired to the reviled, have turned its white walls into a beacon of liberty and light for the world. This is the building where Lincoln freed […]

Thomas Harvey, the pathologist on call at the time of Albert Einstein’s death, stole Einstein’s brain, later promising to share it with the scientific community for the sole purpose of scientific study. Harvey sto […]

The notion that reality TV is often staged isn’t the most shocking news, and it may be worth asking yourself: Do you even care?
In his book, The Storytelling Animal (via The New Yorker ), Jonathan Gottschall […]

Sometimes, coincidences just kind of … happen, and don’t really mean anything. Other times, they might be signs of a vast global conspiracy, a magic spell, or extraterrestrial surveillance, depending on who sees t […]

Actor Joaquin Phoenix, who went by the name
Leaf in his younger years, has been a mainstay in the entertainment industry for decades. He was discovered after he and his four siblings — Summer, Rain, Liberty, and h […]

We all have fun stories about messing around with a Ouija board, whether it was that one night in college, a Halloween party, or that time we actually summoned a demon who spoke Latin and threatened to set us on […]

For decades, Americans have wondered what Cuba is like –- how it looks, how it smells, whether its swanky cigars cause exquisite lung cancer. But political and economic alienation have kept it an alien nation. T […]

Are you bored of your office job? In search of a rewarding new career? Looking for a little excitement in your 9-to-5? Some people love the predictability and repetition of their cubicle farm jobs. Others might […]

Military bases have always been mysterious places. Some are so mysterious that the military insists they don’t exist, even though Google Earth and all those “Keep Out” signs make it pretty clear they do. Others […]

So you want to donate your body to science. Or, more accurately, science wants you to donate your body to science. Because let’s face it, when you really stop to think about it, donating your body to science might […]

Life in the 21st century is hard enough, but just imagine how much more stressful your commute would be if you had to speed past Incredible Hulk-sized “terror birds” trying to flip over your car, or if your […]

What are the odds two people destined for fame and fortune would wind up as roommates? How infinitesimally small are the chances that a couple of complete strangers, both on the verge of greatness, would begin […]

Television drama is full of heroes, villains, betrayals, abductions, murders, and other fun stuff that we love to see happen to other people. Before television, there was Greek mythology, which was also full of […]

They say that rock ‘n’ roll will never die, but playing it on stage could very well kill you. Or at least leave you with lots of aches and pains that will nag you for the rest of your life. The same goes for other […]

After over 20 years of chokeslams, is Big Show ready to hang up his singlet for good? In March 2017, the World’s Largest Athlete told Sports Illustrated he was preparing to retire in February 2018. That, plus the […]

We expect our rock gods to play fast and loose in life, doing things that would kill the rest of us ten times over. Maybe it shouldn’t come as a shock when they go a bit too far. When late nights turn into early […]