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‘Til Death Don’t Us Part: A History Of Ghost Marriage

The idea of marrying a dead person is older than the Magna Carta — and it's called ghost marriage.

By All That's Interesting • Mar 22, 2016

‘Til Death Don’t Us Part: A History Of Ghost Marriage

The idea of marrying a dead person is older than the Magna Carta — and it's called ghost marriage.

By All That's Interesting • March 22, 2016

Your World This Week: Mar. 20 – 26

This week in science: mysterious, prehistoric Tully Monster finally identified; two comets to fly close by Earth this week; memories “lost” to early Alzheimer’s may be retrievable, and scientists learn the startling early mortality rates of autistic individuals. Scientists Finally Solve The Mystery Of The Tully Monster Fifty-eight years ago,...

By All That's Interesting • Mar 21, 2016

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Your World This Week: Mar. 20 – 26

This week in science: mysterious, prehistoric Tully Monster finally identified; two comets to fly close by Earth this week; memories “lost” to early Alzheimer’s may be retrievable, and scientists learn the startling early mortality rates of autistic individuals. Scientists Finally Solve The Mystery Of The Tully Monster Fifty-eight years ago,...

By All That's Interesting • March 21, 2016

Video Of The Day: Watch A Seahorse Give Birth To 2,000 Babies In 30 Seconds

Most know that male seahorses are the baby bearers of the species. What few know is how shockingly strange seahorse birth actually looks.

By Nickolaus Hines • Mar 20, 2016

Video Of The Day: Watch A Seahorse Give Birth To 2,000 Babies In 30 Seconds

Most know that male seahorses are the baby bearers of the species. What few know is how shockingly strange seahorse birth actually looks.

By Nickolaus Hines • March 20, 2016

Why America Wouldn’t Be America Without This Mountain Of Skulls

This one startling photo captures the horrifying extent of the buffalo slaughter carried out by early settlers of the American West.

By All That's Interesting • Mar 19, 2016

Why America Wouldn’t Be America Without This Mountain Of Skulls

This one startling photo captures the horrifying extent of the buffalo slaughter carried out by early settlers of the American West.

By All That's Interesting • March 19, 2016

Doping, Bad Referees And More: 9 Weird Things Psychology Explains About Sports

Lucky hats, doping, biased referees and more — all these seemingly strange actions can be explained by psychology.

By Erin Kelly • Mar 18, 2016

Doping, Bad Referees And More: 9 Weird Things Psychology Explains About Sports

Lucky hats, doping, biased referees and more — all these seemingly strange actions can be explained by psychology.

By Erin Kelly • March 18, 2016

The Tragic Story Of The USS Akron, The Airship That Changed Transportation History

See the glorious USS Akron airship and learn why this vintage flying vessel's historic crash has now largely been forgotten.

By Nickolaus Hines • Mar 17, 2016

The Tragic Story Of The USS Akron, The Airship That Changed Transportation History

See the glorious USS Akron airship and learn why this vintage flying vessel's historic crash has now largely been forgotten.

By Nickolaus Hines • March 17, 2016

Executions, Informants, And Flamboyance: The American Mafia In The 1980s

A look at the 1980s mafia, when drugs, informants, and money ruled the day -- and the organization's downfall was just around the corner.

By Alexander Baldwin • Mar 17, 2016

Executions, Informants, And Flamboyance: The American Mafia In The 1980s

A look at the 1980s mafia, when drugs, informants, and money ruled the day -- and the organization's downfall was just around the corner.

By Alexander Baldwin • March 17, 2016

Nathan Bett: Learning to Disappear

We live in a world of constant documentation: our meals, our travels, our friends — if you have as much a smartphone, all of that likely exists in some pictorial form. But just how do we document the relationship between the photographed, and those doing the photographing? Nathan Bett answers...

By All That's Interesting • Mar 17, 2016

Nathan Bett: Learning to Disappear

We live in a world of constant documentation: our meals, our travels, our friends — if you have as much a smartphone, all of that likely exists in some pictorial form. But just how do we document the relationship between the photographed, and those doing the photographing? Nathan Bett answers...

By All That's Interesting • March 17, 2016

40 Eye-Opening Vintage Public Health Posters From The 1940s

These vintage posters come from a time when syphilis was rampant, and people were expected to eat their eggs and cheese every day.

By Erin Kelly • Mar 16, 2016

40 Eye-Opening Vintage Public Health Posters From The 1940s

These vintage posters come from a time when syphilis was rampant, and people were expected to eat their eggs and cheese every day.

By Erin Kelly • March 16, 2016

Nine Of The World’s Most Dangerous Roads

From the cliffs of New Zealand to the ice sheets of Alaska, take a terrifying look at the world's nine most dangerous roads.

By Savannah Cox • Mar 15, 2016

Nine Of The World’s Most Dangerous Roads

From the cliffs of New Zealand to the ice sheets of Alaska, take a terrifying look at the world's nine most dangerous roads.

By Savannah Cox • March 15, 2016