The Mysterious Disappearance of 16-Year-Old Karlie Gusé

Karlie Lain Gusé. Source: True Crime Crystals 16-year-old Karlie Lain Gusé lived with her father Zac, stepmother Melissa and two younger bro...

French doctor and inventor Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope because he was too shy to put his ear to a woman’s chest

Rene Laennec born 1781 was a French doctor and inventor. In 1816, he invented the very first stethoscope and made a hugely important contrib...

The Top Ten: Shortest wars

'The belief in the possibility of a short, decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.' My ...

Researchers Sequence Genome of Basenji Dog

An international team of scientists has sequenced and assembled the genome of the Basenji dog ( Canis lupus familiaris ), an ancient dog bre...

HOT CAR DEATH Miami woman is arrestered after leaving girl, 2, in a car for SEVEN HOURS instead of taking her to daycare

A MIAMI woman has been arrested after leaving a two-year-old girl in a scorching car for SEVEN hours instead of taking her to daycare. Juana...

Disastrous mix-up at a hospital that killed an hour-old baby by giving him laughing gas instead of oxygen gave another newborn serious brain damage a week earlier

Tuesday should have been John Ghanem's fifth birthday. Instead, it marked the second day of the inquest for the newborn, who died due to...

The Shortest War in History

The little known Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 is generally considered to be the shortest war in history, lasting for a grand total of 38 minut...

The Woman Who Survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic Disasters

Today I Found Out about Violet Jessop, "Miss Unsinkable," the woman who survived the sinking of the sister ships the Titanic and t...

7 Strategies to Manage Anxiety

Anxiety can feel like a monster that is out of control and you have no way of conquering it: nothing could be further from the truth. You ca...

5 Ways to Start Living Your Dream Life Today

  I hesitate to write this because blogs like this usually involve some cheesy rah, rah advice that’s not practical for making it in this me...

The Rock Springs Massacre Of 1885: When 28 Chinese Miners Were Slaughtered, Homes Burned

An illustration of a massacre published in Harper's Weekly, September 26, 1885. The violence against the Chinese laborers was carried o...

See Jupiter like never before: Incredible infrared images show the giant planet's churning atmosphere beyond what we can see with the human eye

Infrared images of the gas giant Jupiter show the massive planet's churning atmosphere like never before - beyond what we can see with t...