Throughout the 1980s and '90s, Herb Baumeister murdered at least a dozen victims and buried their bodies on his Fox Hollow Farm estate in Indiana.On July 3, 1996, three campers in Ontario’s Pinery Provincial Park made a gruesome discovery. Lying next to a large revolver, they found a body, shot through the head. Nearby was a suicide note, which painted a picture of a man suffering in the face of the collapse of his business and apologizing for the harm his death would cause his family. Read More...
Fending off Napoleonic forces alone, self surgery in Antarctica -- history's biggest badasses remind us that for every coward, there's just as much bravery.Source: Wikimedia
History’s Biggest Badasses: Agustina Of Aragon Many consider Agustina de Aragón the Spanish “Joan of Arc” for her defense of Spain during the Spanish War of Independence in the 1800s. When the war first broke out in 1808, she would take apples to feed the gunners. Read More...
Humans have always thought their sense of smell is worse than dogs'. But a new study shows that we've underestimated what our noses can do.Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
Just because a sense of smell is different doesn’t mean that it’s worse. With that in mind, a new neuroscience review claims that us humans have been a little too hard on ourselves when it comes to our sniffing abilities. “We’re discovering, to our delight, that the human smell system is much better than we were led to believe,” John P. Read More...
