If you’re short on time, pick up some doughnuts from your favorite bakery or grocery store, plus a pack of silly plastic ...

Try matching the Edgar Allan Poe quote to the spooky short story. Poe published hundreds of short stories, essays, poems, newspaper articles, and even a book on conchology. His best-known works, ...

The 2025 Consumer Cyber Readiness Report from Consumer Reports shows that Gen Z is falling for “record levels” of text scams. While text recipients ages 30 and older saw scam messages increase by 7 to ...

First and foremost, researchers have found the risks of traveling by train are simply too low to make installing seat belts a worthwhile investment. Though accidents like the 2015 Philadelphia train ...

The most popular non-sweet item was pumpkin soup, which was most frequently searched for in Texas, New York, Florida, and Michigan. Pumpkin seeds—often roasted with salt and spices—were most popular ...

The Fashionable Puzzler, or Book of Riddles was an 1835 collection of riddles and logic puzzles credited, enigmatically, to an anonymous author known only as “ An American Lady .” ...

The quiz below challenges you to guess the Stephen King title based on a synonym. All 12 entries are novels and novellas (no short stories). Most were published under his own name, but two were ...

It’s time to play Tune Twist, where we translate the lyrics of popular songs into multiple languages and then back into ...

We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?

An unfortunate pitfall of trying and adopting international foods, though, is that many of us English speakers aren’t all ...

Climate change has been linked to numerous environmental problems in recent years, ranging from mercury-contaminated seafood to rust-colored Alaskan rivers. Now, scientists suspect it could be a ...

While brown paper bags are an iconic part of criminal investigations, they’re not the only type of bag used in the field. According to law enforcement agency protocols, each type of evidence has to be ...