Welcome to the wonderfully absurd world of hilariously useless facts! You know those random tidbits that serve absolutely no practical purpose but somehow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's always that one person at the party who has a story for everything. But if we're being honest, aren't those people the ...

Arnita Jones of the American Historical Association has been kind enough to bring to my attention something that Waldo Leland, the executive director of the American Council of Learned Societies, ...

Politicians aren’t the best judges of the merits of scientific research. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

IN conversation with a learned friend lately, our talk ran on various definitions of culture, and on the fact that for one reason or another we found them all unsatisfactory. This led us to ponder the ...

How a chemical in lizard spit inspired one of the most important medical advancements. Our lizard friend the Gila monster probably has no idea that a chemical in its spit inspired one of the most ...

This is how fundamental discoveries — aka, “useless knowledge” — are usually made: not so much by hunting for something specific, but by wandering with an interested eye amid the unknown. It’s also ...

Discouraged by a steady decline in the number of U. S. students studying languages, and by the racial and religious discriminations against teachers in other lands —which they deplored*—2,500 members ...

The world is full of incredible information. We learn about history, science, and math to help us understand how life works.

In response to the discussion I posted yesterday regarding exceptions, rules, and the nature of the word "proves," I received complaints that this kind of thing doesn't belong in an IT publication.