81-Year-Old Man Beats Three Burglars Out of His House with Vintage Walking Stick

It’s a common scene in Saturday morning cartoons and comedies. An elderly person, be it a grandma or grandpa, grabs a walking stick and chases someone around while beating them around the head. Usually such an instance of violence is used to elicit laughs from the audience. But there was nothing funny about it when …

Do the Evolution: Scientists Grow Bigger Monkey Brain Using Human Genes

Do biologists like listening to Pearl Jam? We’re just asking, because a German-Japanese group of researchers seems to have taken a page out of the grunge band’s playbook. Seemingly referencing one of Pearl Jam’s most famous songs, the scientists have successfully done the evolution, baby! Using a specific gene from the human brain, they managed …

Ancient Viking Burial Ground Ruthlessly Desecrated… By Surprising Culprits

Ah, the Vikings. The legacy of these fascinating and brutal seaborne plunderers from Scandinavia is pretty much a staple of popular culture. Vikings are regularly directly featured in or inspire the stories of books, movies, games, names of sports teams… The couple of popular TV shows that aired in the past few years didn’t make …