From the rise of streaming to unregulated monopolies, music in the 2010s saw major changes. Here is the messed up truth about the 2010s music industry.
In the 19th century, extreme weather had no warning and terrible consequences. These are the most eye-opening stories from the Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888.
To address the greatest issues of our time, great inventions are required. Here are a handful of the things created in 2022 with the potential to be just that.
Post-presidency, Jimmy Carter is known as a man with a golden heart, but it hasn't always been rosy. Here are some questionable things about his presidency.
You might think that once you become emperor, it would make a lot of your problems disappear, and that's true -- but only up to a point, because family.
The idea that a long-beaked bird is the source of human newborns is a quaint story that may or may not still get traction today, but where did it originate?
Although scaling mountains might get more media coverage and more readily capture public attention, going deep underground has its own charms -- and dangers.
The Scientific Revolution was one of humanity's most formative eras, but it wasn't all roses. Here's a look at the twisted history of the Scientific Revolution.
The practice of ice-sculpting has an interesting past. Learn more about the history of the culinary version, as well as outdoor creations in colder climates.
In what could be described as one of the most disturbing juvenile crimes of the 20th century, two 10-year-old boys from England viciously murdered a 2-year-old.
Chernobyl in modern Ukraine is remembered as the world's worst nuclear accident. Here is why the body of the first victim of the disaster was never recovered.
During the Spanish-American war, countless American soldiers lay shaking and sweating in their sick beds, taken down not by enemy bullets but by a deadly virus.
In June 2022, inflation peaked at a historic 40-year high, placing a great deal of financial burden on American workers. But do prices ever go back down?
One of the world's greatest minds, Thomas Edison, believed that what sleep actually clears your head of is great ideas. Here's how he boosted creativity.
The Clovis First theory holds that America's first settlers took an ice-free corridor to reach the landmass. A new study sheds some doubt on this theory.