Under the terms of the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act of 1984, it became possible for duly appointed local authorities...
A noted populariser of the ideas of Alfred Korzybski, especially general semantics, Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a Japanese-American academic. He...
Intel’s first Pentium microprocessor was the Pentium P5. Released on March 22, 1993, it was an x86 compatible chip that...
The Skunk Ape is an unusual cryptid. For one thing, there are actual photographs of it, taken by an anonymous...
The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Depository is exactly what it sounds like: a facility located inside Yucca Mountain, Nevada. It...
At 6:10AM on the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made a landfall on the Louisiana coast near Buras-Triumph....
Originally discovered in 1930, Pluto was at that time classed as a planet, and named for the Roman god of...
The Large Hadron Collider or LHC is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. Built by the European Organization for...
Instagram almost wasn’t Instagram. When development started, it was originally going to be a location check-in app named burbn. Realising...
The 2018 wildfire season was one of the worst in California history. The Mendocino Complex Fire, which started in July...
