Perhaps the most unhinged character on “King of the Hill” during that show’s original run from 1997 to 2009 was pest exterminator and out-there conspiracy theorist Dale Gribble. As originally voiced ...

Living in LA, I’ve noticed a curious pattern unfold on the rare nights I go out: a few drinks in, one of my friends will usually pull out a pack of cigarettes. “It’s just a drunk cig,” they say ...

Subtracting larger numbers in your head is not always easy, so you can use the column method to take one number away from another. You write the larger number above the smaller number, so that the ...

People skim through blog posts and read only the most interesting parts. The best way to make them read through your blog posts easily is to use bullet lists, which express important points in a ...

The euthanasia conference was held at a Sheraton. Some 300 Canadian professionals, most of them clinicians, had arrived for the annual event. There were lunch buffets and complimentary tote bags; ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

Steven Levy covers the gamut of tech subjects for WIRED, in print and online, and has been contributing to the magazine since its inception. His weekly column, Plaintext, is exclusive to subscribers ...

This database originally covered cases from 1982 to 2012 and has since been updated and expanded numerous times. For analysis and context on this data—including how we built the database, and a change ...