Life in the Dark Ages was physically brutal and unforgiving. This video adds more reasons why most modern people wouldn’t survive even a day. Illness, injury, hunger, and exposure were constant ...

Western civilization arose in the eighth century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial ...

From the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and from the Rhine and Danube to the Sahara, there were a million square miles of safety, prosperity, progress, and science – until the collapse of the Western ...

HAVANA TIMES – At 9:00 PM in Havana, the fan stops turning, the television switches off in the middle of a soap opera, and the lamp’s dim glow disappears. A chorus of “the power’s out!” echoes through ...

KENNER, La. — When the day New Orleans had feared for weeks finally came on Wednesday, it began with a lie as wide as the meandering Mississippi River. A port city somehow dubbed the Big Easy despite ...

Nov. 29, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Seattle’s infamous Big Dark, with its chilly weather and overcast skies, is here to stay for the next several months. Though it might get dark far earlier these days, some Seattleites are taking ...

If you haven't heard, Steam is having a Black Friday sale for the first time ever. Yep, despite hosting nonstop sale events all year along, this is the first one formally branded around ...

A recent auction brought in nearly $3 million thanks to collectors hungry for Gelfling puppets and other Jim Henson Company treasures. Reading time 2 minutes A huge auction of Jim Henson Company ...

Sam Elliott and Billy Bob Thornton play father and son in season 2 of “Landman,” but what’s their age difference in real life? Elliott, 81, and Thornton, 70, are just 11 years apart. During a recent ...

We are midway through the month of November, and the annual fall and winter reality of living in western Washington is setting in. The days are getting shorter and the nights, longer. Add in a series ...