During the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, Sir Earnest Shackleton was the man, or at least one of them. Other explorers of his day may have gathered more renown, but Shackleton's… Read the rest of the article: Expedition will hunt for Ernest Shackleton's lost ship in 2019

As Rick James would be the first to tell you if he weren't dead, cocaine's a helluva drug. Aside from providing an intense high that can be followed by an… Read the rest of the article: Magic cocaine rides the wind into Florida woman's purse

The Auschwitz Memorial Archives preserves 38,916 photos of registered prisoners: 31,969 photos of men & 6,947 photos of women. These photographs were taken from the first quarter of 1941 until… Read the rest of the article: Introducing Faces of Auschwitz

You'd be nuts not to watch this video: after finding a red squirrel with its front legs caught in an animal trap, a team of veterinarians and volunteers came together… Read the rest of the article: This squirrel is the cutest thing on two wheels

The Second World War came to an end 73 years ago. The men and women who served during the war are rapidly succumbing to the ravages of old age. In… Read the rest of the article: This man is capturing the memories of World War II veterans while he still can

Thanks to lousy weather conditions, I've been forced off the road from Texas to Alberta, Canada in an area near Tongue River State Park in Montana. There's no services here,… Read the rest of the article: Friday Tunes: Four Men and a Dog

Unless you're self employed, like I am, sooner or later you're going to need to talk to someone about a Human Resources issue. There might be someone harassing you in… Read the rest of the article: Tackle shitty working conditions with this free human resources service

Those thousands of drawings in the desert of southern Peru that we call the Nazca Lines? They're so yesterday. According to National Geographic, all of the cool kids know that… Read the rest of the article: Fancy new geoglyphs discovered in Peru

Well, this is creepy: According to Bloomberg Law, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is currently shopping for a contractor that can help it compile a list of editors, journalists,… Read the rest of the article: Department of Homeland Security wants to build a database to track journalists and their sources

Thanks to a recent court filing, we may soon see who's responsible for funding the bigoted neo-nazi bullshit machine we all loathe and know as The Daily Stormer.

Great news from New Zealand this morning. According to the BBC, the nation's government has passed legislation that will allow individuals who were charged under the country's old laws against… Read the rest of the article: Gays who were charged under discriminatory laws in New Zealand will have records cleaned

According a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 66 million people are at risk of having their livelihoods taken away by robots. From The Guardian: The OECD… Read the rest of the article: Report: 66 million people will lose their jobs to robots

Children being forced to represent themselves in a court case that could determine their future? Sure, why not.

If you were to ask the Indian Space Research Organization, they'd tell you that space is hard: the IRSO has lost communications with one of its satellites mere days after… Read the rest of the article: India ironically loses communications with new communications satellite

The use of fake cellphone towers, known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, plays well with the nation's spy agencies and in some police jurisdictions. The authorities just can't get enough… Read the rest of the article: They're just like us: Feds fear their phone calls and texts are being monitored

I've lived in British Columbia and Nova Scotia. This is, hands down, the best story I've ever read that involves both coasts. According to The Times Colonist, 17 years ago,… Read the rest of the article: After 17 years, luxury hotel lifts ban for man whose pepperoni brought disaster to his room

According to the Vatican, demonic possessions are on the uptick. In order to meet the rising demand for assistance by those assailed by the demonic, the Vatican-backed International Association of… Read the rest of the article: Vatican: More trained exorcists needed to fight the demonic

I got my first Kíla album in the mid-1990s while I was going to university in Halifax, Canada. It was a big deal. Lemme give you some background: my folks… Read the rest of the article: Concert: Kíla – Live at Vicar Street

There's still plenty of life left in my 2015 MacBook Pro. But sooner or later, I'll ditch my computer in favor something new. The nerd in me is wicked excited… Read the rest of the article: Confession: You can't trust a junkie with a new laptop

A lot of Star Wars fans were butt hurt over the Last Jedi's treatment of iconic Star Wars characters. Others, not so much–I'm one of those. I think it was… Read the rest of the article: Watch Carrie Fisher slap the pretty right off of Oscar Issac's face