Mundus, an eccentric charter boat shark hunter since the 1950s, led a fishing trip that landed an estimated 4,550-pound great white off Long Island in 1964. Benchley read the news reports, and the big ...

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Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto gives his acceptance speech of Argentina’s Order of May for Merit Award this year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Socialism has a well-earned reputation as a secular, rational movement. But not all socialists throughout history were quite ...

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NPR's Ailsa Chang goes on a nighttime hike in search of spiders, with Lisa Gonzalez of the Natural History Museum of Los ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

The Maya civilization possessed the remarkable ability to forecast solar eclipses with stunning accuracy for over 700 years, using nothing more than careful observation and mathematical genius. A ...

About 250 million years ago, as life was recovering from Earth’s greatest mass extinction, some reptiles began to change ...