Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler was born in Poland in 1910, in Otwock a town some 15 miles southeast of Warsaw. Her father, Stanislaw Krzyzanowski, a doctor whose …
Photos appear to show a giant ship hovering over the water off the English coast
A man says he was “stunned” to look out to sea from a village in Cornwall, in southwest England, and see a giant ship seemingly …
Henrietta Lacks’s cells were priceless, but her family can’t afford a hospital
Tissues taken from cancer victim Henrietta Lacks in 1951 have made big profits for the drug companies, but today her surviving children can’t afford health …
Jeanne Calment was indeed the world’s longest-living person
By combining epidemiology, mathematical modeling, and historical investigation, researchers in Geneva, Switzerland, and France confirm Jeanne Calment’s exceptional longevity, invalidating the conspiracy theories surrounding her. …
Bizarre ‘Papa Smurf’ resurfaces on the internet; know how overuse of colloidal silver caused a man to turn blue
Old pictures and videos of Paul Karason, popularly known as the Blue Man or Papa Smurf have resurfaced on the internet a decade after he …
George Stinney was executed at 14. Can his family now clear his name?
Accused of killing two white girls in South Carolina, George Stinney Jr was tried and electrocuted in just 83 days. As a judge ponders whether …
A Cubic Millimeter of Brain: The Most Detailed Neural Map Ever Created
A Cubic Millimeter of Brain: The Most Detailed Neural Map Ever Created In a tiny corner of the human brain—smaller than the head of a …
The Woman Who Cut Herself Open to Save Her Child
March 5, 2000 San Lorenzo Texmelúcan, Oaxaca, Mexico Population: 200. Nearest hospital: 80 kilometers of unpaved mountain road. Inés Ramírez Pérez was 40 years …
Atomic Leisure: When Las Vegas Watched the Bomb for Fun
On July 17, 1955, swimmers at the Desert Inn pool in Las Vegas witnessed a surreal spectacle as a mushroom cloud from a nuclear test, …
MyBestSelfie: How One Woman Turned Online Hate into a Year-Long Act of Defiance
It started with cruelty. In the summer of 2019, Melissa Blake—a writer, blogger, and disability activist from Illinois—published an essay criticizing then-President Donald Trump. The …