From a 2014 article on The Dark Power of Fraternities by Caitlin Flanagan, this is one hell of an opening paragraph: One warm spring night in 2011, a young man ...

From a 2014 article on The Dark Power of Fraternities by Caitlin Flanagan, this is one hell of an opening paragraph: One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back ...

Japanese photographer and artist Tomoko Sawada works primarily in self-portraiture. For her first project, she visited ID ...

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This video from Practical Engineering was very illuminating to me, a naive person who thought there were only three types of electrical outlets used in the US — ...

It might be that this text-only quiz game from 1993 is the most challenging F1 video game of all time. Here are a couple of the 23 questions from Gerhard Berger ...

Here are a couple of the 23 questions from Gerhard Berger’s Formula 1 Quiz: The correct answer in 1993 was Emerson Fittipaldi, but his full name cannot be accepted because it contains too many ...

Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid. As an adult, he’s taken tons of photos and hundreds ...

Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid. As an adult, he’s taken tons of photos and hundreds of hours of footage of the moon. After seeing an airplane fly close to the ...

Late in his life, the prominent English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell was subject to an attempt in the early 1960s by Oswald Mosley to provoke him into a debate about the merits of ...

Just wanted to dip in here to say that Amazon is running another one of their sales for Prime members, which can be a great opportunity to upgrade some tech items at lower prices, especially with the ...