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Mercedes Boggs knows she’s lucky to be alive. Boggs was on her way to work last month when her car hit a patch of ice, flipped on its side, and slid down an embankment coming to rest in a frigid creek. After regaining consciousness, with cold water rushing in from the smashed windshield, Boggs realized

If the old newsroom adage of “if it bleeds, it leads,” is true in Australia, then Aussie journalists will need to find something else to write about, as the country has experienced one of the most dramatic and precipitous falls in crime rates seen in the developed world. Since 2001, break-ins have fallen by 68%,

Mercedes Boggs knows she’s lucky to be alive. Boggs was on her way to work last month when her car hit a patch of ice, flipped on its side, and slid down an embankment coming to rest in a frigid creek. After regaining consciousness, with cold water rushing in from the smashed windshield, Boggs realized

A chameleon has been declared by science as currently the world’s smallest reptile. The male brookesia nana or “nano-chameleon” measures less than an inch long, while the females stretch just past an inch. Chameleons are famous for their extending, sniper-rifle tongues, their ability to change color, and their funny little karate-chop oven-mitt-like hands that allow

A chameleon has been declared by science as currently the world’s smallest reptile. The male brookesia nana or “nano-chameleon” measures less than an inch long, while the females stretch just past an inch. Chameleons are famous for their extending, sniper-rifle tongues, their ability to change color, and their funny little karate-chop oven-mitt-like hands that allow

One loving father is a stellar example of what it’s like to be happily blind to skin color—and he hopes his story can inspire everyone to understand that transracial adoption is just as natural when the parent is black and child is white. (A combination that has produced too many negative inferences for this dad