ARTICLES
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For those with chronic hiccups, the outcome is bleak. Nobody knew this better than Charles Osborne, a man who hiccuped 595,680,000 times over 68 years.
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Hit counters tracked how many views a web page ever had. They were ugly, hackable, and shallow. But they were also the predecessor to present day web analytics.
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With 54 strip clubs — including one that is "100% vegan" — Portland, Oregon is America's unlikely strip club capital. But how did it get there?
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It might make you sound like Donald Duck, but helium has a lot of serious technical applications. If it ever runs out, it's bad news -- and not just for balloons.
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With an on the job fatality rate 30 times higher than that of the average American worker, loggers have the deadliest job in the country. But what makes it so dangerous?
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A group of scientists says they’ve figured out how to use data to sniff-out the most impactful trend in the past 50 years of popular music: the rise of rap
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Every year, due to typos, 12,000 Americans are erroneously declared dead by the Social Security Administration. Those affected endure the Orwellian nightmare of convincing the government that they are alive.
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"Here is an idea: You give me some money. No? Okay, how about I form a sister empowerment group that shares abundance. Sound better?"
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As an sign language interpreter who specializes in live rap performance, Amber Gallego has worked with everyone from Snoop Dogg to Kendrick Lamar.
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Overall, 80.7% percent of Americans live in urban areas, but the number varies widely from state to state, and not quite as you might expect.
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Data that shows just how much hotel prices fluctuate based on demand and seasonality.
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A new step in computer creativity has been made in the culinary arts.
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Capable of navigating through mazes, creating complex networks, and anticipating recurring trends, slime mold demands intellectual respect.
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In the truest sense, the ability to pay for bail is the ability to buy freedom, and there is a wide disparity in Americans’ ability to do so.
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Employers illegally siphon billions of dollars out of low-wage workers' paychecks each year, but the vast majority of these crimes go unreported.
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Researchers recorded and analyzed almost 1,000 speed dates to come up with a linguistic portrait of a good first date.
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How a young man abandoned his science career to make a fortune dealing rocks and crystals. No, not like Breaking Bad: actual rocks, actual crystals.
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Half-fish, half-businesswoman, Mermaid Melissa has crafted a thriving company around her alter-ego.
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As a UPS cargo load master, Bland Matthews has been tasked with shipping everything from Terracotta Army soldiers to beluga whales.
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In a card stunt, thousands of audience members raise squares of colored paper over their heads, each a pixel in a giant multi-coloured image. Here's how that's done.
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From a small Connecticut shop, David Roy builds mind-blowing, moving sculptures that operate entirely on kinetic energy.
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How the need to rationalize Gehry’s artistry in 1992 changed the architecture and construction industries into what they are today.
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How ignorance and a little ego threat can make us ridiculously over-confident.
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For better or worse, the one-hit wonder seems to be going the way of roller skating rinks and marquee boxing matches: once common, they’re now increasingly rare.
