How did 300 reindeer in Norway die from a single lightning strike? 

If computers endanger the hard-won gains of the labor movement, do we need a new way of addressing tech-driven income inequality?

Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. 

Thomas Edison had a big stake in the AC/DC war of the currents and would say anything to win. 

With the help of a French hairdresser, Marie Antoinette embarked on what initially appeared to be a happily fated alliance between the Habsburgs and the Bourbons.

This election season has drawn enormous attention to the anxiety that many Americans in economically-distressed rural places seem ...

Is cockroach milk the next hot super food?

Tintypes were an early, accessible, cheap form of photography, just the thing for on-the-go Americans.

Nearly 1.5 billion tickets to horror movies were sold in 2015 alone. But why do we love being scared so much?

Our Friday Reads: a new book by Belle Boggs called The Art of Waiting.