After two years of letters and in-person visits with "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, it became abundantly clear to author and criminologist Dr. Scott Bonn that Berkowitz "relished his evil celebrity status and that he enjoyed terrorizing the city of New York ...
Read MoreAnother cat behavior that can befuddle a human observer is The Stare. Why do they shoot those laser eyes into our souls?
Read MoreSARS came and went -- which seems like a real glass-is-half-full potential outcome for the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Unfortunately, there's a small pile of reasons why it's unlikely that we'll see the same miraculous contagion disappearing act this time around.
Read MoreGet ready to buckle your swash, me hearties, to hear a tale of long ago from the High Seas, and there's a celebrity, and there's pirates! This one happened back around 75 BCE and it involves one of the few people from Ancient Rome that almost everybody can name: Julius Caesar.
Read MoreMoe, Larry, and Curly grew up in the school of hard knocks. The knocks didn't stop coming once they hit it big. Here's the tragic story of the Three Stooges.
Read More"Another insipidly sleazy, lizard-brain shoot-'em-up that through its very dullness demonstrates how rote such ghastly fare has become in our culture." "Instantly forgettable tough-guy fantasia." Just a few selected lines from reviews of the critically panned The Last Days of American Crime.
Read MoreIt sounds like the stuff of fantasy. An underwater ghost village in the Mediterranean? That's got to be a lost suburb of Atlantis, right? Do mermaid ghosts live there, and do they swim or just eerily pass through the water like it doesn't exist?
Read More"Small and kind of cute" doesn't necessarily mean "small and kind of cute and harmless," as any Peter Dinklage fan knows. Add "kind of cute, for something boneless" and it doesn't change. Case in point: the blue-ringed octopus. Small, and kind of cute, but astonishingly deadly.
Read MoreOne of the most enduring treasure hunts in the past decade finally came to an end this week. Forrest Fenn, who hid a treasure box possibly worth over $1 million, confirmed on his website someone found his buried chest of booty in the Rocky Mountains.
Read MoreThomas Jefferson was truly adventurous when it came to foods, and the palate.
Read MoreAs documented by the U.S. State Department Office of the Historian, during a 1965 meeting at the White House, President Lyndon Johnson voiced "serious concerns" about whether westerners stood a chance, "in the absence of intelligence," of winning the Vietnam War.
Read MoreIf you were one of the thousands who watched the SpaceX launch, you might have noticed that the feed came from Florida. A lot of space shuttles and rockets take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, and there's a reason for it. But no, it isn't because astronauts get to enjoy the fun and sun.
Read MoreWikipedia is everywhere, but the untold truth of Wikipedia is probably just as interesting as any page you can find on the site itself.
Read MoreBefore appearing in 90's rock band blink-182's video for "What's My Age Again?", Janine Lindemulder was a model and adult actress for over a decade.
Read MoreFrom a series of colossal records in the golden age of thrash to the trashcan drums of 2003's St. Anger, Metallica has been nothing less than iconic.
Read MoreLike a lot of things, there are fruits out there that are nifty fun and delicious and good for you, and then there are fruits that are good for you in moderation. And then there's those fruits that are basically Mother Nature's booby-trap to cull the herd.
Read MoreIn terms of rich athletes, Michael Jordan is always the top of any list. But his fortune pales in comparison to a chariot racer from around the Second Century CE, named Diocles.
Read MoreYes, even your ancestors enjoyed the occasional nippitaty — that is, according to Merriam-Webster, a very strong drink. But while colonists couldn't call upon Postmates or head over to the nearest Trader Joe's wine shop, mom-and-pop liquor stores have served the public since the United States was founded.
Read MoreEminem's disses leave third-degree burns on their coolest setting. So unless you want Eminem to melt you with his mouth, it's best not to light a fire under him because you will probably be no match in a feud. But Nick Cannon didn't choose his fire fight in 2009. Eminem chose him.
Read MorePink Floyd evolved into one of the most adventurous and introspective bands of all time, but the band's history is shrouded in both mystery and tragedy.
Read MoreOf any celebrity, it's perhaps the least shocking that Jared Leto would be the one to start a cult.
Read MoreIt might seem impossible, trying to nail down the realities of the Star Wars universe. The events described in the movies, books, and video games occurred, allegedly, far, far away, and not even recently. Still, the good folks at MythBusters never let a childish premise stop them.
Read MoreIn between streaming Netflix's new Space Force show starring Steve Carell, we recommend gaining some real space knowledge about how our universe formed and how NASA is gearing up to return man — and woman — back to the moon by 2024.
Read MoreVince Offer, or the ShamWow Guy, certainly has an interesting past. Are ya followin' me, camera guy? Or more to the point, how about the police guy?
Read MoreAs bad as coronavirus is -- and it is bad, make no mistake about it -- Black Plague was worse. (So far, anyway.) Also known as Bubonic Plague, also known as the Black Death, in the mid-1300s it ravaged Western Europe. It would rear its head again in San Francisco.
Read MoreThe early eighties were a particularly revolutionary time for British rock band Queen. The decade also saw Freddie Mercury leave behind his trademark long hair and painted fingernails for a strikingly different look.
Read MoreThe Secret Service's mandate wasn't expanded to presidential security until 1901, when President William McKinley was assassinated while in office. The first president to be assassinated was Abraham Lincoln, in 1865 ... and, in a deep historical irony, it was Lincoln who established the Service.
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