Our general image of early colonial settlers is of a rather prim and proper bunch, a group that spent more time in church than having fun. That doesn’t mean that they didn’t get up to some wild, wacky, and occasionally lewd hijinks. But for those who got caught, the punishment was often swift Puritan justice. […]
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Cultures from all over the world tell campfire tales of were-creatures. Asia has were-tigers and were-foxes. Africa has were-hippos, crocodiles, and hyenas. South America has were-jaguars. Native Americans have skin-walkers. It seems anywhere you go, the top predator is mythologized as a supernatural creature. The European werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope, is a fixture […]
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As marijuana laws are being loosened across the country, start-ups are using technology to transform what has traditionally been a face-to-face market.

Police in San Francisco were confronted this evening with a gunman reportedly firing from a rooftop construction site near St. Luke’s hospital in the city’s Mission District.
#BREAKING Gunfire near St. Luke’s Hospital in SF’s Mission District. Police say suspect is on the roof. Hospital told to shelter-in-place.
— Janelle Wang (@janellewang) November 12, 2015#BREAKING: Reports of gunshots – possible active shooter situation- near Mission & Cesar Chavez in SF- streets closed as police respond
— KTVU (@KTVU) November 12, 2015

We have a crew near a man who is reported to be on a rooftop and firing shots with a shotgun, #developing
— Randee Deason (@2hip4tv) November 12, 2015

#BREAKING: KTVU crew on scene of incident at St…

Chris Matthews, who somehow managed to survive the Great MSNBC Purge of 2015, continued to demonstrate his special talent of saying something utterly ridiculous without seeming to realize it. This time, the host of “Hardball” seemed puzzled whether GOP presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio could legitimately be called Hispanic. After all, that would make the GOP field more diverse than the Democrats, and that just doesn’t compute…

A new generation of apps provide a personalized assessment of form to help you better serve, squat, swing, throw, lift, run or otherwise work out.

Debates about the validity of A.D.H.D. and the drugs used to treat it — the same that have long polarized Americans — are now playing out all over the world.

The teasing, judgment and unsolicited advice directed at overweight people may cause the greatest psychological harm.

Hundreds of Well readers helped us come up with the right thing to say to a friend in a need.

Mass media professor Melissa Click, the woman shown calling for some “muscle” to rid the University of Missouri’s “safe space” of a student reporter, isn’t the only one feeling the consequences of her actions caught on video. Janna Basler, who appears in the same video appearing to shove Tim Tai and repeatedly telling him, “You need to back off,” has been placed on administrative leave…