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The linguistic field of prosody, the story of melody, pitch, and other hard-to-study verbal traits, is suddenly hot.

What does the slogan on your car say about you?

Pressed ham is off the menu.

Old British town has very old tunnels.

Invented by a football-hating electrical engineer, eventually, horses got involved.

Where do mermaids live? Where are mermaids found? Are there mermaids in real life? Are mermaids really real?

Lochs, ghylls, bights, freshets and other watery wonders, defined.

He subsisted on candy.

Why bombing New York City wasn’t always so rare.

To be fair, it was their parents' idea.

This piano tickles its own ivories.

It’s in our nature to want to form relationships with others—even if they don’t know who we are.

The archives of Charles "Teenie" Harris are a treasure trove of political history.

A city known, of course, for witches.

Called the Eureka, it may have influenced Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace.

Only true collectors are invited to this hidden celebration of mechanical puzzles.

Sauron, the dominant male bull of the herd, was found without his head.

It's a little ominous.