It sounds like the premise of some lost Ed Wood horror flick with a Hitchcock twist: waves of beavers scurrying through a West Sacramento, Calif. neighborhood, toppling trees and damaging public property.
According to a large-scale survey of secular and religious feelings toward sexual activity, Catholics are no more likely to feel guilty about sex than many other religious people.
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” the opening words of the King James Version bible, words you might call the crust on a piece of creation-angled bread in a figurative sandwich that it seems harbors a …
It involves clambering over fathomless crevasses, battling temps that can dip to 40 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, winds that can rage upwards of 100 m.p.h., breathing oxygen-deprived air at stratospheric heights — and this …
What’s the most you’ve ever laid down for a cup of Joe? A couple bucks? A dozen? North of $20 at some crazy-upscale five-star eatery? How about $47 and change?
Your chances of being audited by the IRS are one in 175, your chances of becoming president of the U.S. are one in 10,000,000, your chances of winning the Megabucks Slot Machine Jackpot are one in 50 million — your chances of …
“It’s popping now, it’s really kind of crackling — that’s what happens when the greener wood starts to burn.” Imagine color commentary like that by chummy firewood specialists poised before a hearth, chatting up viewers for 12 …
Maybe you’ve had this nightmare: You’re racing down the highway at crazy speeds, the brakes unresponsive, the car inexplicably speeding up, toll stops and who-knows-what-else lying in wait ahead.
For all our obsession with the possibility of intelligent alien life, the search for E.T. has so far been a letdown. What’s a self-respecting alien-hunter to do?
A judge in Chile just ordered that Neruda’s body be exhumed and autopsied as part of an investigation into his 1973 death.
A famous 183-year-old French painting of a flag-bearing woman leading fighters across the bodies of the fallen has been defaced by a museum-goer with a black marker at a recently launched adjunct to the Louvre museum in northern France.
If you think our ancestors’ artwork was all cave paintings and stone tools, think again. A new exhibit of forty-millennia-old artwork at the British Museum is downright inspiring.
