This Woman Made Doctors Believe She Gave Birth To Rabbits
Ines Vuckovic/Dose And also cats and eels. Yup. EELS. Our Unsung Heroes series brings history’s unknown badasses out of the footnotes and into the spotlight. In September 1726, a poor, illiterate…
This Rare Disease Turns People Into Trees
Only four people have ever been diagnosed. Early last year, a 45 year old Indonesian man named Dede Koswara passed away in a hospital in Bali. Dede was perhaps better…
This Sleep Disorder Brings Your Nightmares To Life
A monster is choking you and there’s nothing you can do about it. You’re asleep and you’re falling. You feel the rush of the air, the fear of the crash. You…
Why Every Baby Should Eat Peanut Butter
Getty/Antonio Manaligod Researchers made an incredible discovery in 2008. Why won’t we listen? In his 2013 comedy special “Oh My God,” Louis CK acknowledges that children with nut allergies should be…
The Sisters Who Fought Nazis By Seducing Them
Ines Vuckovic/Dose They were only teens when they joined the fight against Nazi occupation. Our Unsung Heroes series brings history’s unknown badasses out of the footnotes and into the spotlight….
Meet the Jedi Whales That Sound Like Lightsabers
May the Force free Willy. “Star Wars” may take place in a galaxy far, far away, but here on Earth, scientists have discovered a species of whale that produces a sound…
The Science Of Having Sex In Space
Ines Vuckovic/Dose What goes up must get down. Last year, Elon Musk released his plan to send humans to Mars. As many critics have pointed out, Musk’s strategy for colonizing the…
If You Sneeze With Your Eyes Open, Will You Die?
Ines Vuckovic/Dose We’re sniffing out the truth. Our Middle School Mysteries series investigates childhood rumors you never bothered to fact-check yourself. My sixth-grade Social Studies teacher had a habit of making…
Everything You Know About Patient Zero Is Wrong
How a typo made one man the scapegoat for the AIDS epidemic. As of July 2015, more than 1.2 million people in the United States were living with HIV. That…
The Journalist Who Understood The True Meaning Of Christmas
Ines Vuckovic/Dose “Yes, Virginia” is the most reprinted newspaper piece in American history, and this guy wrote it. Our Unsung Heroes series brings history’s unknown badasses out of the footnotes and…
