Surprising

Status symbols are some of the hardest to understand aspects of any culture or society. What makes any given thing a symbol…

Stand up comedy would be nothing today without comedians making observations about the differences between men and women. And it’s likely people…

How many of us know how the apple got its name, or the onion? We take these words for granted because they…

They say the human brain has a storage capacity that is in the range of 2.5 million gigabytes. That said, our memory…

In the origins of country names, we find all kinds of surprising hidden histories. America, for example, comes directly from the name…

Medicine is an absolute marvel of science. To think we’ve gone from at one point using poisons like mercury to try to…