POSTED // Jul 4,2011 - s it really possible to purchase a lord, laird or lady title online? As I understand it, some Websites allow anyone to buy a...

POSTED // Jun 27,2011 - Lingchi was a punishment reserved for infamous crimes such as treason or parricide.

POSTED // Jun 21,2011 - For centuries, people have been proclaiming that the End of the World As We Know It is right around the corner. Are there any psychological studies of how these people cope when the date passes and the world doesn’t end?

POSTED // Jun 13,2011 - The first thing we learn is that, according to U.N. experts, world population is expected to reach around nine billion people by mid-century and then stabilize.

POSTED // Jun 8,2011 - Depending on how you define “homemade,” “space” and “ship,” you can get a craft into space, or at least a respectable distance off the ground ...

POSTED // May 30,2011 - Once upon a time whale oil was, in fact, used to lube new cars, in the United States as well as Japan.

POSTED // May 23,2011 - I took a geology class not long ago and read about a guy that had massive amounts of coal underneath his ranch. The dude sold the ranch, made millions, and moved into a penthouse.

POSTED // May 16,2011 - Get out that calculator! I’ve always wondered: take the 1860 census, add up the number of slaves in the United States ...

POSTED // May 10,2011 - My co-worker shocked and baffled me by reporting that, in 10 years or so, bananas will be extinct ...

POSTED // May 2,2011 - You should tell the story of the dwarf planet Eris, whose discovery was directly responsible for the demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet.