In Alternate Futures, we take a look at incorrect predictions from the past in order to better understand what we can foresee and what we cannot. “All Diseases may, by sure means, be prevented or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walking through an antique shop, you’re surrounded by items calling back to times of yore. Whether they’re china tea sets ...

Because I am a metal nerd, I not only know that there’s a subgenre of death metal called “primitive” or “bestial” (and probably eight or ten other names), but I also like it. You can tell you’re ...

Some words have fallen out of popular use, but shouldn’t have. So says Wayne State University, which recently released its fourth annual list of “remarkably useful and expressive words that deserve ...

Expanding the lexicon of dramatic and intellectually evocative English words, today’s Word of the Day is “antediluvian,” a term steeped in history, mythology and metaphor. Often used to describe ...

THE PHILIPPINES needs to be well prepared. Its islands are hit by 20-odd typhoons a year, not to mention earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Yet as two storms earlier this month revealed, even with ...

Walking through an antique shop, you’re surrounded by items calling back to times of yore. Whether they’re china tea sets reminiscent of your grandma’s heirlooms or a Rococo settee begging to return ...