Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Young people hate vacation, Google search is sometimes bad and paper can cut wood.
Clemson University and the National Park Service have released the Open Parks Network, a digital gallery of rare and unique material from the archives of the country’s national parks, historic sites and battlefields.
You’ve written a book! Now comes the hard part: making sure people buy it. Don’t worry, we’ll show you how to sell, where to sell and why Facebook is your BFF.
James and Britney Spears carpool through Los Angeles, chatting about her desire to have a whole bunch more kids and the strange aliases she uses when checking into hotels.
Stephen Bannon’s enrollment is an apparent violation of crucial swing state’s election law requiring voters to be legal residents of county they register in.
Jose Canseco, the muscle-bound former baseball outfielder who exposed baseball’s rampant steroid use and nearly blew off his middle finger with a handgun, has now developed a cult following after some of his contrarian predictions about financial markets came true.
Pavlina Pižova tells of enduring the death of her partner, sleeping three nights in the open and how attempts to walk back to safety were thwarted by poor weather and avalanches.
The other night Daniel Bryan and The Miz got into a fight. How much of that argument was scripted isn't clear, but it brings to the forefront a chilling realization about professional wrestling: Is it better to be a safer, more boring wrestler for longer like the Miz, or a flashy and dangerous fan-favorite whose career was cut short like Bryan.
At least nine significant aftershocks struck the affected area overnight, including one at 6:28 am local time Friday that measured 4.7 on the Richter scale.
A series of racially charged accusations dominated the presidential campaign Thursday, with Democrat Hillary Clinton accusing Donald Trump of “taking hate groups mainstream,” while the Republican nominee repeatedly claimed that Clinton is a “bigot” toward African Americans.
How could it be legal for multiple Houston, Texas, emergency rooms to refuse Dinisha Ball a rape kit? The complicated, infuriating, little-known reasons why women can be denied emergency care after a sexual assault.
In a world where every day it's becoming less and less acceptable to make fun of another's body, why are dick jokes still getting cheers instead of jeers?
The future of the Republican Party — with or without Donald J. Trump — is weighing heavily on the party’s top elected officials, thought leaders and activists. It’s a topic sure to be dissected once the results on Election Day are tallied. Here are the possibilities ahead for a political party facing an existential crisis.
Horrible laws often follow major terrorist attacks. But after an ISIS-linked man ignited a bomb in a Shiite mosque in Kuwait last year, killing 27, the mother of all troubling laws was rushed through the country’s Parliament.
As capital punishment declines nationwide, a tiny fraction of the country generates an alarming number of death sentences. What this new geography tells us about justice in America.
The recent death of a 4-foot-1 cabaret act known as "Mini Kim Kardashian" reveals the uncomfortable reality of how slowly things have evolved since the days of the freak show.
John Lennon had no idea George Harrison's dentist slipped LSD into his coffee. He was too busy worrying that the weird dude was trying to coerce him into an orgy.
Because the earth is round, planes don't travel in straight lines and instead follow curved routes along the earth's "great circles." But every flight path varies a bit based on atmospheric conditions — this nifty GIF illustrates how wind patterns affect the New York to London flight.