According to Greek mythology, the water of the Sty...  ...nd accidental or deliberate poisoning (hellebore, arsenic , aconite, strychnine)."Notably, some of Alex...

Kick-Ass is about a teenager who decides to become a superhero. So he makes a costume and goes out on the streets, looking for trouble. In Columbia, Tennessee, one college student took up the path and now calls himself...

Nuclear weapon test Romeo (11 megaton) on the Bikini Atoll on April 15, 1954 Just how many nuclear bombs does the United States of America have? For thirty years, the exact number of bombs the Pentagon stockpiles has bee...

Everyone who's done it knows that cleaning is a lot like warfare (and if you have children, it's always a losing battle). Hugo Tornelo and Pedro Alegria of Cabracega have just the weapon for your next house cleaning adve...

The armoured ground cricket of southern Africa are fat and flightless, two things that make them prime targets in the food-scarce African landscape. Predation should've killed off these crickets, but evolution has eq...

Chimps may be portrayed as mischieviously fun but largely harmless by Hollywood, but the truth is anything but. In the wild, chimpanzees are killers that engage in years-long war against one another, and their behavior m...

Did you guys hear that Indiana Jones 5 is apparently in the works? Are you all as horrified as I am? If you're like me and hated Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with a passion, then you prefer to dwell on the classics - R...

The following is reprinted from Uncle John's Unsinkable Bathroom Reader If you think about it, Pac-Man is a strange game concerning a tiny, pie-shaped creature who ate power pills so that he could catch ghosts. That's an...

Photo: Curious Expedition [Flickr]Curious Expeditions visited Castelul Peles (Peles Castle) in Sinaia, Romania. The castle was built by a multi-cultural "labor force" (forced labor?) and has an interesting hist...

I've been roaming across the States the past few weeks – spent a few days in Boston/Providence and a few days in L.A. Although they're on opposite coasts, the two locations do have one thing in common: residences...