Current evidence suggests that humans had the capacity for spoken language at least 130,000 years ago. Ever the ...
The oldest known joke in known human history is not "Why did the chicken cross the road?" In fact, it's a fart joke that can be traced all the way back to ...
The more you travel, the more you realize how much there is to see. There’s a list on Wikipedia that features the most ...
Sometimes the best escape routes are the ones nobody’s talking about, and Shades State Park in Waveland, Indiana is basically ...
When most people think of Illinois, they picture flat cornfields stretching to infinity, but Giant City State Park in Makanda proves that stereotype wrong in the most spectacular way possible. This 4, ...
The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.