The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...ained alcohol, opium, morphine, cocaine, and even arsenic (in some beauty aids). But the newly minted mi...

There are countless Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts backpacking through forests in 155 countries around the world. But while those iconic khaki uniforms are associated with childhood adventure, scouting was actually forged in...

Yesterday, we told you the story of how Wired's Spencer Ackerman got the story about how the NSA thinks that telling you it's violating your privacy is a violation of your privacy. Sa...

(YouTube Link) The average Brit knows as much about the NBA as the average American knows about Arsenal and FIFA, which is why it's hilarious to hear one of the Queen's own announce a game between "the Clappers" (sic) a...

Pumpkin Spring is a geological oddity is a lim...  ...p, but that which remains has a deadly mixture of arsenic , copper, zinc and lead. It's dangerous, but beaut...

Postman's Park in London, England, has a small memorial garden featuring 54 plaques that honor common men and women who were never famous, but died during a heroic act of saving someone else. The Memorial to Heroic Self...

Take this double .45-caliber handgun to the range to attract great scorn and admiration simultaneously. To commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of John Moses Browning's model 1911, Italian gunmaker Arsenal Firea...

(YouTube Link) One Piece is officially the most successful anime series ever, so it's no surprise that custom toy weapon builders would want to bring some of the props from this series to life. The Slingshot Channel dec...

What you see before you is a man who fancied himself a warrior, but turned out to be nothing but a loser seeking revenge for something that happened to him when he was seven years old. Here's the scoop: This is the as...

[YouTube Clip]...  ...bacterial sensor capable of detecting arsenic . This sensor would make the cells blink on and of...