[ad_1] Commit the insect you see above to memory. That’s the brown marmorated stink bug, an invasive species originally from Asia that’s made inroads across large...
[ad_1] When Nicole Allen bought a gift for her 2-year-old daughter the week after Halloween at a dollar store in Dayton, Ohio in 2014, there was...
[ad_1] Besides being great companions and painfully cute, dogs can be a little quirky. Between their funny expressions and odd behaviors—like rolling in grass and tilting...
[ad_1] Noah Webster had a lasting impact on language in the United States. Before publishing his An American Dictionary of the English Language, he produced a...
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[ad_1] On October 14, 1994, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction was released in theaters in America and a new Hollywood auteur was born. In addition to teaching...
[ad_1] You may know them as wiener dogs or Doxies, but do you know how to say their proper name? Like many German words, the pronunciation...
[ad_1] Can a house be born bad? That’s the question Shirley Jackson asks in her classic novel, The Haunting of Hill House. Released in 1959, the...
[ad_1] Everywhere you turn these days, it seems like there’s a new—and wildly successful—book, podcast, or show devoted to a crime. Investigation Discovery, a hit from...
[ad_1] On Halloween, the spirits of the dead are supposed to walk the earth with the living. Whether or not you believe that, or in ghosts...
[ad_1] Ghosts, ghouls, and monsters turn up everywhere at Halloween—including in our language. From treacherous underground goblins to ghostly roaming primates, here are the spooky origins...
[ad_1] More than a half-century ago, a small group of Pittsburgh filmmakers decided to make a scary movie. Working from a shoestring budget with limited crew...
[ad_1] Did Tony die at the end of The Sopranos? Did Carmela? Did we all die instead? Even if you’ve never seen HBO’s iconic crime drama,...
[ad_1] Hollywood lost one of its longtime icons on August 1, 2020, with the passing of Wilford Brimley. Some knew the 85-year-old from a storied big-screen...
[ad_1] Sequoyah was fascinated by books and letters, enchanted by the way people could divine meaning from ink-stained scribbles on a written page. Born circa the...
[ad_1] Decorative pockets that don’t actually open are among the apparel industry‘s most frustrating practices. Sometimes, though, they turn out to be “real” pockets that have...
[ad_1] Rabbits are much more than the cute, carrot-munching creatures pop culture makes them out to be. They can dig sophisticated tunnels, grow to weigh more...
[ad_1] AI-generated fan fiction, music videos, and film scripts are often so bad that they’re hilarious. Could an AI program get the same number of laughs...
[ad_1] The platypus is arguably one of the most distinct animals on the planet. Here are a few things you might not have known about this...
[ad_1] Remember when your high school reading list included Atticus, Fiesta, and The Last Man in Europe? You will once you see what these books were...