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Why do so many Chinese people share the same name?
As U.S. intelligence agencies take heat for their response to Russian warnings about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, we're learning that the National Counterterrorism Center added the now-deceased Boston bombing...
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Google 'recognizes' Palestine
First the United Nations, now Google. On Thursday, the Palestine News Network noticed that the Internet giant had changed the tagline for the Palestinian edition of its search engine, Google.ps, from...
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Chicago street gang and Lyndon LaRouche appear in Qaddafi's FBI file
It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that the FBI has "released" its 207-page file on Muammar al-Qaddafi. The documents are so heavily redacted that most of what you get is a series of headings,...
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Why Indian-Americans d-o-m-i-n-a-t-e spelling bees
Update: The streak continues. Arvind Mahankali, 13, won the 2013 national spelling bee with the German-Yiddish word "knaidel" on Thursday night, making him the sixth Indian-American winner in as many...
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Lyudmila, we hardly knew ya -- no really
She's been one of the world's most elusive first ladies -- let's just say no one ever called her the "Russian Michelle Obama" -- and after today, she'll be a public figure no longer. On Thursday,...
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Do You Speak the World's Weirdest Language?
Are you one of the 6,000 people in the world who speaks Chalcatongo Mixtec? Congratulations! You speak the world's weirdest language. That's what Tyler Schnoebelen and the researchers at Idibon, a...
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Welcome to the Most Boring News Event Ever
I have a theory: every segment of news delves into a level of detail that at least a few loyal readers find fascinating. Several -- if not dozens -- of people appreciated Creative Knitting's recent...
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Can the U.S. Create a National Park on the Moon?
The Hill is reporting the rather startling news that Reps. Donna Edwards (D-MD) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) have introduced legislation to create a National Historic Park at the Apollo landing...
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Is This the Most Interesting Opening Paragraph Wikipedia's Ever Published?
Most Interesting Man in the World, meet your match. On Sunday, Twitter user Matthew Barrett created something of a sensation by linking to the obscure Wikipedia biography of the British army officer...
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If Detroit Were a Country, Would It Be a Failed State?
The city of Detroit has sorrows to spare. Its government -- officially, as of Thursday -- can't pay its bills. Its police don't arrive in time to stop criminals, and its ambulances don't arrive in...
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What Does the Manning Verdict Mean for Edward Snowden?
Watching the verdict handed down against Bradley Manning Tuesday, Edward Snowden had his worst fears confirmed. With a litany of guilty verdicts, the judge, Col. Denise Lind, all but certainly...
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Making Sense of the Syrian Rebels' Order of Battle
Who the Syrian rebels are depends on whom you ask. Experts on the civil war -- not just politicians like Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian President Vladimir Putin -- disagree vehemently over...
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Saudi Arabia's First Female Filmmaker: We Found Wonderful Girls -- but They...
That the first feature film shot in Saudi Arabia (a country with no commercial theaters) was directed by a woman (in a country where women still famously cannot drive) would have been enough to spark...
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This Man Decides Whether Russians Consume Moldovan Wine, Lithuanian Cheese,...
You may not have heard of Gennady Onishchenko, but if his own accounts are to be believed, he's the Russian government official who single-handedly averts major public health crises posed by foreign...
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Gitmo Troops Get a Car Show While Inmates Sweat in 12-Foot Boxes
Guantánamo Bay's reputation as the dark heart of America's war on terror tends to overshadow its more banal role as a naval base -- filled with troops, their families and, to a lesser extent, their...
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