The world is richer, but an equitable distribution of resources most certainly isn’t beggaring anybody.

I have an urge to jump off a cliff. Does that mean I’m suicidal? Whenever I approach a high-up balcony railing, or look over some cliff, I get this urge […]

The well-publicized resurgence of bedbugs certainly plays nicely with the industry’s attempts to get you to replace your mattress more often.

Are bananas, by virtue of their radioactivity, dangerous? If that logic attracts you, you’ll want to spend tonight on the sofa.

Hang on, you say—“associated with”? That’s even slipperier than “correlated with,” right? Buddy, you’re not alone. A 2013 paper on the “proposed effect of breakfast on obesity,” or PEBO, undertook a meta-analysis of the available research.

It was openly known by both governments that even if Russia were to launch all its missiles in Cuba, it couldn’t take out the U.S.’s capability to obliterate the USSR in response.

National territory isn’t sold much anymore, although the idea still comes up. In 2010 two German MPs seriously suggested that Greece consider selling several of its uninhabited islands to pay its national debt.

The various nonalimentary benefits of juglone, medicinal and otherwise, have been well-known for ages.