Both the Amazing Facts calendar and the Word Nerd calendar measure 4.6 inches by 4.6 inches, featuring tear-off pages and an easel backer so you can easily prop it up on a shelf or desk. They’re ...

This is another riddle taken from one of the very first modern anthologies of riddles published in the English language, The Riddles of Heraclitus and Democritus, from 1598.

Brownsville, Texas, (population 185,000) bucks the trend of the 10-year collision average; typical drivers there go 14 years ...

Roasted coffee beans. | Chee Siong Teh / 500px/GettyImages A method of roasting the coffee bean that results in a loss of floral flavors but isn’t as oily or robust as a dark or French roast ...

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. If you were somehow able to drive a car straight up at 50 miles per hour, you would reach space in ...

Per the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase dead weight can be traced back to the 1600s and is defined as the “weight of something which does not move by itself; a heavy, inert weight.” A ...

Linguine with clams. | Luc TEBOUL/GettyImages Linguine, which means “ little tongues ” in Italian, is a long, flat noodle. Wider than spaghetti but narrower than fettuccine, it has a smooth ...

“Kevin sure made a beeline for that buffet,” one might say. Or, “Sarah made a beeline for the ER after breaking her tibia.” Every day, millions of people use the idiom make a beeline when ...

Unfortunately for the locals of Charlotte, North Carolina, they came out on top not only with the worst branch of the DMV in the country (with just over 30 percent of online reviews considered ...

Though the 1975 original film is legendary, the ‘Jaws’ sequels actually get pretty weird—and here are the real reasons why.

If humans ever become a multi-planet species, some would have to spend years in space. And researchers have definitely speculated whether space travel would allow for reproduction.

Despite modern technology and industrialization, humans are still changing as a species, even today. Here are a some indications that our evolution isn’t over.