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Public DomainJoshua Reynolds Study for the Portrait of a Young Woman, often cited (though many say incorrectly) as being a portrait of Mary Astell. Before there was Gloria Steinem, there was Mary Wollstonecraft, and before there was Mary Wollstonecraft, there was Mary Astell. Though widely unknown today, Mary Astell is credited by many historians as

Todd Orr/FacebookTodd Orr in April 2016. This past Saturday, Montana man Todd Orr endured not one, but two attacks from the same grizzly bear and lived to tell the tale. In fact, Orr told that tale in a video recorded minutes after the second attack and since shared to Facebook, where it has since

In 2011, a self-published author named Nancy Brophy wrote an essay titled How to Murder Your Husband. Seven years later, she did just that. Daniel and Nancy Brophy had been married for 25 years when Nancy walked into a kitchen at Oregon Culinary Institute, where Daniel worked as an instructor, and shot him twice. The

Natalija Kashuba Et. Al/Stockholm UniversityIn the early Mesolithic Era, birch bark tar was commonly used as glue in tool production. Researchers excavated a piece of 10,000-year-old birch bark in Sweden in the early 1990s in the hopes of uncovering a trove of DNA. Why would birch bark be full of human DNA? Well, the tree

David Nadlinger/Oxford UniversityThe prize-winning photo of a single atom. Forget everything you know about atoms. Bet that took a while. If there is something about atoms from grade school science class that may have stuck, its likely the assertation that atoms are invisible to the naked eye.