We can now add 'caring for the young of our own species' to the list of things humanity has managed to screw up.
'Slut' or something much worse is currently tops to degrade a female perceived as promiscuous, but 'hussy' is a close relative and once the preferred a-bomb of past a-holes.
Wars aren't wacky. But wars are fought by people, and people -- if the feces-wracked flow of the stagnant fjord of human history has taught us anything -- are truly, deeply stupid.
We sat down with a survivor of the Bosnian genocide to try to get some small hint of what it's like, and to try to understand how this even happens.
If you grew up with Sesame Street, you learned about a whole bunch of different disorders without even knowing it.
We've got some finger pointing to do.
The past contained a lot more mind-numbing terror than history class was comfortable revealing to you.
If you think your future knowledge would help you in the past, we have bad news for you.
Sometimes the brainwashing overlords in charge of telling us what to buy go wildly off the rails, and it's always fun to sit back and soak in their failure.
When you think of the Victorian era you probably picture sexually repressed spinsters and sad little orphans. Not so fast though.
Once Eisenhower's chief of staff bet General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery a B-17 Flying Fortress, he was going to get it.
Here are some historical women whose creative sexual resumes stand up to any man's.
Quick, friend, grab your trusty magnifying glass and put on your best research pants.
It's fascinating to trace the origins of everyday phrases back and find out just how many of them were not only slang, but terms that referenced unspeakable horror.
When you go sifting through the shockingly explicit artifacts left behind by great civilizations, you find that modern society is pretty tame.