Tag: Bleeding

In the best of times, political divisions and debates need not lead to violence. Today — arguably, not the best of times — we have people in the United States, mostly on the extreme Christian nationalist right, whose political passions inspire them to speak glibly of the inevitability of...

Scratching an itch can be extremely satisfying — even pleasurable — but persistent, long-term itching makes millions of people miserable. Scientifically, the question of what causes us to itch has left scientists scratching their heads for centuries. That’s ironic, given that th...

The Revolutionary War Battle of York involved 29,000 American, French, and British soldiers; contrast this with the Battle of Gettysburg, a single battle that involved 160,000 North and South soldiers on the field. The total number of deaths between 1861 and 1865 was roughly equal to casualties sust...