Obscure Controversies

Ailey O’Toole was a young poet on the rise, until colleagues found she’d stolen their verse.

Sorry, Explorers Club, but woolly mammoth is no longer on the menu. Neither is the giant ground sloth. A Yale-led analysis has shown that a famous morsel of meat from a 1951 Explorers Club dinner is not, in fact, a hunk of woolly mammoth. It is green sea turtle meat, most likely set aside from the soup course.

It all comes back to Hillary vs. Bernie, again.

Is it a hat, or part of his anatomy?

An Army directive authorizing beards for soldiers based on their religion applies to all religions — as evidenced from this recent memo from a brigade commander.

The lawsuits have been settled out of court, but the debate between big business and spirituality goes on.

how did "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" become the typical sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet and not "sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow" which is objectively a million times cooler