The body mass index, or BMI, is a simple and widely used method for classifying whether a person is overweight or obese. It’s calculated by dividing a person’s body weight by height squared, which hel...
The body mass index, or BMI, is a simple and widely used method for classifying whether a person is overweight or obese. It’s calculated by dividing a person’s body weight by height squared, which hel...
Was he a model leader or a genocidal overlord? Actually, neither.
The raw data is undeniable. While women generally prefer men around their own age, men are most attracted to 20-year-olds, period. That’s why the Daily Mail calls straight women over 45 the “plankton...
Despite criticism of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail, what’s classified and what’s not isn’t actually so obvious.
Yes, he wrote the plays. No, he didn’t have such a huge vocabulary.
Air tankers dropping 11,000-gallon loads of blood-red fire retardant on flames look great on the nightly news. So do drones mapping a fire’s active edges with infrared cameras. But the boots-on-the-g...
Popular depictions of coal focus on its polluting qualities: blighted landscapes, black lungs and smokestacks belching out toxic clouds that cause acid rain. News coverage of the industry typically sp...
Did it really end World War II? And did it save half a million American lives?
July is hotter than August in D.C. And the humidity has nothing to do with swamps.
Despite what you’ve heard, they don’t have to keep swimming, and they do get cancer.
Who really said “Let them eat cake”? And what actually happened at the Bastille?
They didn’t want a secular nation, and they weren’t above partisanship.
With “Jurassic World” about to eat the competition alive, it’s time to look back to 1975 when Stephen Spielberg unleashed the first big summer blockbuster, “Jaws.” Or did he?
For all of its ubiquity, sunscreen is often misused. Dispelling these common misconceptions could help you protect yourself.
