A small but substantial tweak to the treatment regime of bowel cancer demonstrated remarkable improvements in survival almost 3 years after surgery. Changing the kind of drug and the delivery window showed substantial improvements over the previous pai…
Employees at a Lowe’s in Pennsylvania were shocked after they went to retrieve a pallet high on a shelf and heard a chorus of frightened mewling. Atop the boxes the pallet held, they discovered 7 kittens across two litters. The store in Downingto…
On April 13th, the world’s oldest gorilla celebrated her birthday with a vegetable feast at the Berlin Zoo. Named Fatou, no one knows how she was taken from her home in Africa, but one story says she was brought to France by a sailor who later ha…
2,100 years ago, famed Roman general and one-time dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla laid siege to a rebellious Pompeii during a lesser-known conflict called the Social War. On the day, Sulla brought along a special form of artillery. The contraption coul…
Local but lovely, a historic street in a Florida town is getting a new-old makeover, that will restore the oldie charm and reduce traffic risk for pedestrians. The key to clearing both these hurdles in one leap is the recently-commenced re-bricking of …
A jury recently decided unanimously that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster were operating as a monopoly, and that this had led to exploitative pricing and promotional contracts with venues. Rolling Stone magazine called it a “landmark d…
