While Greek mythology no longer holds as prominent of a role in popular culture as it once did, its stories endure through common English phrases that we use all the time. But while some of these are ...

Main Street, USA, is no ordinary road: it's a route that transports you back to your fondest childhood memories. Lined with charming mom-and-pop shops and benches that beg you to sit for a while, ...

From Agatha Christie to Ken Kesey, these six bestselling books all feature narrators whose version of the truth doesn't quite add up.

Who wants to be a new m? It can be very difficult to reach that point depending on factors like the type of job you have or how much you could inherit from others. The m ...

There are a lot of toys today that have us adults thinking, "I wish they had thought of that when I was a kid!" But one category of toys has younger generations ...

The word “clue” has one of the most unexpected etymology journeys out there: from a ball of yarn to a key piece of evidence.

Everyone knows Cher from Clueless or Jules from Pulp Fiction, but what about the minor characters? They tend to capture our ...

Sweden, Denmark, and Canada ranked among the best countries for quality of life. See where the U.S. landed on the list.

The 1970s were far out!  This outta-sight decade gave rise to disco, shag carpets, bell-bottomed jeans (which have since had a revival), lava lamps, coin-operat ...

It wasn’t all that long ago, though, that crime-solving relied on some far older, far less reliable, and far more spurious techniques for identifying potential culprits—and perhaps among the most ...

So too does the word “tantalize.” In some versions of the story, Tantalus was a son of Zeus, king of the gods, and married to the daughter of the god, Atlas, whose name was Dione. Tantalus numbered ...

Maine leads the list with only 92 violent crimes per 100,000 people, making it the only state with a crime rate under 100 ...