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    On April 12, 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk made an announcement which turned him into a household name: [...]

    The phrase “canary in the coal mine” means to serve as a warning to others. The [...]

    For decades, the United States has waged what is often termed the “War on Drugs,” [...]

In the movie The Shawshank Redemption (and if you haven’t seen it yet, stop reading, because I’m [...]

  The video above runs for three minutes. It’s repetitive and rather boring — there’s [...]

Getting soap in your eye stings. That’s something we unfortunately learn at an early age — anyone [...]

    Peptic ulcers, which form in the stomach or opening to the small intestine called the duodenum, [...]

The myth: carrots can meaningfully improve your vision. Like most myths, there’s a bit of science [...]

In 1991, Allen Parton was a member of the British Royal Navy serving in the Gulf War. He was in a car [...]

  The game “Tag” is pretty simple. One person is “It,” and remains [...]