January 21 is National Squirrel Appreciation Day! The holiday was started in 2001 by wildlife rehabilitator Christy Hargrove, hoping to nudge people toward kinder, more curious attitudes about these ...

From Civil War hangings to presidential visits and quirky courthouse tales, explore 175 years of drama, justice and survival at Cape Girardeau's Common Pleas Courthouse.

Although Send Help will continue its run while Iron Lung drops out of the box office race (and most theaters), the $21.5 million the film has made globally means it more than made up for its reported ...

Viewing the natural world separately from humans — whether in a void or sweeping landscape completely untouched by industrialization — is reductive and can absolve us of our responsibility in the ...

Squirrels are famously forgetful in popular culture, yet field studies show they can relocate roughly 85 percent of the nuts they hide, a success rate that would put most human key-finders to shame.

Charlie Munger said he moved from law into investing only after years of careful saving because he was cautious, not bold or drawn to big risks. During an interview at the University of Michigan's ...

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