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The Plague Killed killed off a giant swath of the population but those who survived saw better lives across the board, because there were so few left to work. And rabbits, once the gifts of kings, were suddenly everywhere.

Near the end of World War II, General George Patton forced German citizens to visit the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp to bear witness to what they had enabled. An ethicist debates that and two other reasons it might be right to watch Nidal Hassan die.

Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter arrives.

AI has characteristics of a charismatic religious leader and people looking for counsel are flocking to it

Do you remember how old you were when you got your first period? And whether it was considered early, late or about average? Some parents are reportedly overhauling lunchboxes, shampoos and doing all they can to attempt to delay their child’s periods, so they don’t “grow up too early”.

A survey says half of new parents have unwanted thoughts about harming their infants. Why did Lindsay Clancy resort to murder when so few others do?

Carter banned journalists. Obama banned Fox News. Biden revoked 440 press passes. Now Trump has banned three, and outlets like Fox have joined the protest. The issue is much larger than the First Amendment.

Do you trust one local person in an emergency over hundreds of millions of dollars of government equipment? Yep. And firefighters and cops too. But perhaps not government agencies.

Marriage for love is essentially a 20th-century convention. It's still financial in most ways. You need a government license to enter a marriage contract and a financial settlement to exit. But it still has religious overtones also. The question now is; why do people get married at all? Professor Devorah Baum has answers.

Sweden, for example, claims to be a secular, modern country, yet their belief in the paranormal is the same as everywhere else. Dr. Katarzyna Herd has insights.

The Canadian capital of Ottawa was bombarded with 167 millimetres of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a one-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 basement-flooding reports followed, and the worst of it hit the city’s west end, including the Crystal Beach neighborhood.

University admissions data show an 11% increase in applications to study maths in college. The reason is that young people see AI as being the biggest boost to the field since the calculator