From space, Earth resembles a deep blue marble with shots of browns and greens coursing through it. Its distinctive color is due to the sheer amount of water covering it. But even though we know there is a lot of water on the Earth, we do not really ever conceptualize how much water that truly is.
Read MoreDave Gahan, the illustrious singer of Depeche Mode, is without a doubt one of rock's great frontmen ... unfortunately, being a rock star can often mean living like a rock star, and Gahan certainly took part in some of the darker undercurrents of fame.
Read MoreArtists have their quirks. And some don't feel quite secure in front of all those people unless he's packing heat. And that guy would have been Elvis.
Read MoreIt's not uncommon that the first musical project that a musician picks up won't be their last. Such was the case with Bruce Springsteen.
Read MoreKris Kristofferson has had a remarkable career and a colorful life. So why did his family disown him?
Read MoreEven without the mythological aspect, Jupiter is a prominent, easy-to-study element of modern astronomy, with a host of features that boggle the mind.
Read MoreIn terms of ideal career paths, being an astronaut is one of the coolest jobs you could imagine. NASA accepts around 12 astronauts into its training program every couple years, but there's another way to make it to the moon, and Eugene Shoemaker is proof.
Read MoreAbraham Lincoln was a great many things. And before he was president, he held a very different job dedicated to serving the people: that of bar owner.
Read MoreConsidering that The Wall is one of THE Pink Floyd albums as well as THE concept album, you might suppose being part of the band at the time would be a generally good thing. And it might have been for Roger Waters, but for Richard Wright, Pink Floyd's keyboardist, it lead to his departure.
Read MoreThe Mamas and the Papas' heyday "was two and a half years of total melodrama," according to member Michelle Phillips.
Read MoreWas Herodotus the first Western historian, or "the father of lies?"
Read MoreThe seventies were a foundational time for Def Leppard. Though their first album didn't release until 1980, the band's roots were established in the decade. Pete Willis, Joe Elliott and Rick Savage came together as teenagers, and formed the band in Sheffield, England in 1977.
Read MoreYou may know all the facts about the Pacific Ocean's depth, size, length, and more, but what you might not know is how the Pacific Ocean got its name.
Read MoreThe vice president makes roughly enough to buy 100 medium-range French bulldogs. Here's how much that is.
Read MoreOn July 15, Lancet published the findings of a series of models they've implemented to predict the future of humanity's population based on trends in fertility, migration, and mortality rates. What they found was that the fertility rate in almost every country will drop below the replacement level.
Read MoreTo add to the list of things you'd never thought you'd see in your lifetime that happened in 2020, there is now a coin shortage. Here's why.
Read MoreSometimes rebellion comes in the form of butchering the very thing that bands are being used to commodify: their own songs.
Read MoreWritten during the peak of the grunge movement in the mid 1990s, Irish rock band The Cranberries' 1994 hit "Zombie" bombarded airwaves and marked a new era of success for the group.
Read MoreMount Rushmore could have looked very different.
Read MoreIn many ways, the majestic Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, is in a category of its own. As National Geographic reports, the 19,340-foot colossus is the tallest mountain in Africa, and since it is not a part of any mountain range, it's also the largest freestanding mountain in the world.
Read More"The stupidity and futility of it all, the complete and utter waste of life, destruction of a family not to mention the death, and other traumas are far beyond anything else I have ever come across." Such was the case of the tragic story of Michael Taylor.
Read MoreThe Incan empire quickly grew during the 16th century CE to encompass nearly the entire western coast of South America. Here's what life was like for its women.
Read MoreThe Atlantic Ocean is the Earth's second largest body of water. According to the National Ocean Service, the Atlantic covers approximately 41,105,000 square miles, or about 20% of the Earth's surface. Yet, the title itself, the Atlantic, sounds a bit impenetrable ...
Read MoreRock stars are often unpredictable, but David Lee Roth has taken things to another level.
Read MoreThere's no question that Lee was an extraordinary athlete, teacher, actor, and director. Dying far too young, at 32, only adds to the tragic mystique. Along with the tragedy come stories, bordering on myth, attached to a man whose reality was more than remarkable all by itself.
Read MoreIf you have heard the name Vladimir Demikhov, it's probably for the science fiction-sounding experiments he conducted, in which he transplanted the head of one dog to another, in effect, creating a two-headed dog.
Read MoreOne of the world's first superpowers, the Persian Empire was located in modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey. Compared head-to-head with other ancient world civilizations, there's something oddly endearing about Persia.
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