"This is a ' kimon yoke ,' a protective ward against demons, evil, and misfortune. Japanese superstition holds that the ...

Grocery stores are like the theaters of everyday life, where the mundane meets the bizarre. From aisle to aisle, you're likely to witness an array of peculiar behaviors unique to this setting. While ...

A Burning Man tribute to the last remnants of humanity, a buried Statue of Liberty, depicted in the 1967 science fiction film, Planet of the Apes. Courtesy of Flickr user Brian J. Matis Poof! The ...

The human body is a masterpiece of engineering. Beyond the common facts everyone knows, there are peculiar abilities, rare biological quirks, and mysterious built-in mechanisms that even most biology ...

(via SciShow) There are a lot of places, conditions, and situations that just don't seem all that survivable for most people. But for certain populations of humans, conditions that would be fatal for ...

This is one of the weirdest mysteries of human evolution: Why do we have grandmas? From menopause to our slow maturation and super-long lifespans, humans are quite unique in the animal kingdom. Could ...

In a quip that launched a million memes, Minnesota Governor-turned-VP-candidate Tim Walz referred to his right-wing political opposition as “weird people” in a July 23, 2024, interview on MSNBC. Since ...