Grocery stores are like the theaters of everyday life, where the mundane meets the bizarre. From aisle to aisle, you're likely to witness an array of peculiar behaviors unique to this setting. While ...

History is full of geniuses, rulers, artists, and thinkers, many of whom carried habits so odd they seem unbelievable today. In this video we explore 20 historical figures whose weird rituals and ...

When it comes to human behavior, it’s rarely the grand gestures that tell the truth—it’s the micro-moments. The unguarded reactions, the slips between words, the ways people hold themselves when they ...

Late last night, hundreds of warm bodies piled together in the 20° weather outside of the undergraduate library at UNC Chapel Hill. For ten minutes at midnight, Carolina students shed the weight of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) When we first got together, we wondered whether our unconventional project, linking ...

Watching Dogs Lifts Mood, But There’s a Catch for Pet Owners In A Nutshell Watching videos of dogs tends to improve human mood, even when some of the dogs in the clips appear distressed or ...