but nothing beats a good hand-illustrated manuscript, am I right? You know, by a monk who really knows his stuff.

Two Texas men wanted to create an island of sex slaves, Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender and 17th century aristocrats used this device to mask their flatulence

Do companies like Facebook know the harm their products create? In mosrt cases, yes — often in great detail. Do they care? Not enough to do anything

If you share a recipe for or photo of fried rice in China on November 25th, you may get a visit from the authorities. To understand why, you have to go back 75 years.

You didn't "censor" yourself -- censorship is something someone else does to you when they prevent you from speaking. You just decided not to say something dumb and/or hateful, and now you want to make it seem like someone else made you do it.

Just for fun I actually read the agreement before installing the 105-megabyte software update for my Epson printer, which (like many printers) is a gigantic piece of crap that rarely works properly. This is the best part: SECTIONS 19-23 OF THIS DOCUMENT APPLY TO YOU. SECTION 22 CONTAINS A BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION THAT LIMITS YOUR ABILITY TO SEEK RELIEF IN A COURT BEFORE A JUDGE OR JURY, AND WAIVES YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN CLASS ACTIONS OR CLASS ARBITRATIONS FOR CERTAIN DISPUTES

Coolidge, who had never eaten raccoon and had no appetite to try it, kept the racoon as a pet and named it Rebecca. For Christmas, an embroidered collar was made for Rebecca, inscribed "White House Raccoon". She enjoyed participating in the annual White House Easter egg roll.

If you were one of the millions of children who grew up reading Goodnight Moon before bed, chances are its iconic green bedroom is permanently seared into your memory. Now, for the next four months, you have the opportunity to sleep in the Goodnight Moon room IRL. The Goodnight Moon room has been faithfully re-created—down to the red balloon, bowl of mush, and cow jumping over the moon—for a new immersive suite at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.

Brinlee Luster brushed off the exhaustion and stomach cramps as stress. She was finishing college, planning a wedding, and racing toward graduation. At first, the changes were easy to dismiss. A cold that wouldn't clear up. An unsettled, uncomfortable feeling in her gut that could be anxiety. Feeling winded on an easy hike. But as the pain sharpened and she started leaving class 10 times to use the bathroom, she knew something was seriously wrong.

Olga Tsvyk got a job doing eyelash extensions, a skill she had picked up back home in Ukraine. In March 2016, a 40-something recent Russian immigrant named Viktoria Nasyrova walked into her salon. Nasyrova told Tsvyk that she was a masseuse and that she lived with her boyfriend in Brooklyn. She was open and friendly, and they talked easily when she came in for appointments every few weeks.

It's not surprising that the FTC's antitrust case against Meta was thrown out (again) -- it started out weak and it only got worse as the market for social media evolved

Rob Parsons and his wife Diane were listening to the radio and getting ready for Christmas on 23 December 1975 when they heard a knock at the door of their Cardiff home. The couple contemplated ignoring it – they’d already overcompensated the small carol singer murdering Once in Royal David’s City – but Rob, now 77, switched off the radio and went to the door.

In today's When The Going Gets Weird, Ukraine jams Russian missiles with music, much of what we know about the Black Death is wrong and the tiny Czech town that invented the term "dollar"