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Virginia city repeals ban on psychic readings as industry grows and gains more acceptance
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoThe City Council in Norfolk, Virginia, repealed a 45-year-old ban this week on “the practice of...
The hidden racist history of hair loss
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 4 months agoChris Tefme/Shutterstock Hair loss is common in men and women, particularly with age – for example, androgenetic alopecia (or pattern baldness) affects...
The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. This is the story of scientists’ quest to...
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 5 months agoAs Elon Musk’s Neuralink begins inserting chips into human brains, we trace the history of ‘mind...
George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s...
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 5 months agoThe work remains a crowd favorite. But more and more scholars are starting to see ‘Rhapsody’ as a...
The animals you can count on to predict weather, according to science
CNN via Yahoo News UK· 5 months agoThe annual rite on Groundhog Day isn’t great at predicting the length of winter. But there are some...
Intellectual humility is a key ingredient for scientific progress
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 7 months agoAn intellectually humble person may have strong commitments to various beliefs − but balanced with...
Skulls taken as trophies returned from Scotland to their ancestral home
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News UK· 8 months agoThe skulls of four Taiwanese tribal warriors killed nearly 150 years ago have been repatriated by a...
19 clever white elephant gifts worth a laugh and a steal
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIf you've never joined in a white elephant gift exchange, you've never lived. Or at least, you've...
Don’t ban Russians from coming to Europe. Ban Putin's imperialism instead
Euronews via Yahoo News UK· 10 months agoThe destructive and hawkish ideology of Vladimir Putin and his mafia state cronies should be...
Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends – from gurning to stereoscopy
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 11 months agoPhrenology images from Vaught's Practical Character Reader (1902). Public Domain Review Leisure...