Social Sciences
Venice started charging tourists just to walk through its streets
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 23, 2026
Society
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Social Sciences
Disneyland's opening day was a sweltering disaster, with soft asphalt and forged tickets
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 12, 2026
Social Sciences
Newspaper readers raised funds to complete the Statue of Liberty's pedestal
By The Long View · Sep 12, 2026
Social Sciences
Seven metal detectorists become millionaires from Norman coins found in Somerset field
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 11, 2026
Social Sciences
Paris's highest viewing deck closes for complete rebuilding until 2030
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 10, 2026
Social Sciences
A woman hired at 84 into a temporary National Park Service role in Richmond, California, became a permanent ranger at 89 and gave her last…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 4, 2026
Social Sciences
In 1994, the last Coast Guard keepers left New Dungeness Lighthouse
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 4, 2026
Social Sciences
A Colorado ski area retired all 220 chairs from a lift installed in 1972 when it replaced the old lift
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 3, 2026
Social Sciences
Rome scoops roughly 1.5 million euros a year in coins out of one fountain and gives it to a charity that runs a food bank
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 2, 2026
Social Sciences
Steven Spielberg was rejected by USC’s film school because his grades were not good enough
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
South Korea led the world in instant-noodle consumption per person from 2013 through 2020, before Vietnam overtook it in 2021 with an…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026
Psychology
Cultures that still protect an afternoon rest period aren't fighting biology, they're working with it
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 19, 2026
Social Sciences
In 1932 Australia sent a small artillery detachment with machine guns to cull thousands of emus damaging Western Australia’s wheat fields…
By Mal James · Jul 23, 2026
Social Sciences
Say pyramids and everyone pictures Egypt, but the country with the most of them lies to its south
By Mal James · Jul 22, 2026