3+ week, 4+ day ago   (647+ words) When you text a friend telling her to cancel her plans because you’re taking her out dancing, the emoji you send is not necessarily the emoji she will see. Although the hundreds of emojis in the emoji keyboard are universal,…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (639+ words) When the police chief learned what workers had found, sealed inside a small brick cellar as they drilled below a defunct brewery, he was sure someone had interrupted his Tuesday meeting with a prank. ”I thought it was a joke,…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (420+ words) Pro athletes always hold some degree of cultural significance, not just now but in civilizations long past. Archaeologists excavating an ancient town in Turkey may have found proof of this from thousands of years ago in the form of a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (463+ words) Today, Stirling Castle is a tourist destination nestled in the quiet hills of Scotland, but in 1304, it was a war zone. That’s when, after years of off-and-on fighting, the English captured the castle during a violent siege. Now, new research…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (303+ words) For as devastating as a direct hit from a trebuchet seems like it would be, archaeological evidence has never provided much proof that any one person was killed by one. Logic dictates that somebody must have been. We just never…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1016+ words) Seven and a half years after a raging fire nearly destroyed the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, workers will soon begin installing the most contentious feature of its meticulous restoration: six towering stained-glass windows that depict the Christian feast of Pentecost....