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Epidemics of the Past: Smallpox

Smallpox: 12,000 Years of Terror Epidemics of the Past Smallpox: 12,000 Years of Terror Bubonic Plague Influenza: A Twentieth-Century Epidemic Smallpox is one of greatest scourges in human…

July 2022 Current Events: Disaster News

Top of Page World News | US News | Science & Technology News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the Disaster…

Exploding Exercise Myths

Getting Americans off the couch and onto their feet could save an estimated 200,000 lives a year, says the surgeon general. Yet most of us are either sedentary or only minimally active.…

Fall Film Preview, 1998, Part 4

Pixar hopes for another special-effects coup with A Bug's Life. Adam Sandler portrays another hapless hero in Touchstone's The Water Boy. Colonies of another kind — those inhabited by ants —…

Baron Munchausen: Preface to the Second Volume

by Rudolph Erich Raspe The Baron insists on the ve...Preface to the Second Volume Baron Munchausen has certainly been productive of much benefit to the literary world; the numbers of…

Genetics & Evolution

Cloning Milestones Cloning: Facts and Fallacies Should We Play God?  Clones Aren't Exact Copies The Cloning Quandary Cloning Facts and Fallacies Oldest Human Remains in North America Found…