Digital Doppelgängers may share your name, but you can still claim your own digital identity.

Thinking of celebrating Cinco de Mayo at your school this year? Learn from history about some of the potentially insensitive pitfalls.

Many whimsically named regional foods focus instead on telling a story that often sounds neither delicious nor sophisticated. How do such odd names stick?

From ancient Egypt to modern times, the various cures suggested to relieve the hangover. 

The role of art in helping veterans heal from the traumas of war.

A folklorist embarks on a years-long study of the bachelor party.

Halloween history and ethnography.

Finding anti-cancer agents inside tobacco may seem like a pretty strange coincidence, but it’s not unheard of to find help in harmful places.