Personalities
For some viewers, Sammi Hanratty will always be the mischievous young girl who kept appearing across Disney-era television. For others, she is Kassidi from Shameless—intense, chaotic and almost impossible to predict. And for a newer generation of television fans, Hanratty is inseparable from one character in particular: Teenage
Movies
Kristin Kreuk does not need much screen time in EuroTrip to completely destroy Scott Thomas' comfortable little world. She manages it before the European adventure has properly begun. Kreuk plays Fiona, Scotty's girlfriend at the beginning of the 2004 comedy. At first, her decision to end their
Personalities
Christina Chong has spent much of her career appearing in worlds that could hardly be more different from one another. She has crossed paths with the Doctor. She has entered the universe of Halo. She has worked inside the tense police world of Line of Duty. She appeared in 24:
archaeology
For much of the 20th century, the story of the first Americans seemed relatively straightforward. Near the end of the last Ice Age, people from northeast Asia crossed the exposed Bering Land Bridge into Alaska. As the enormous North American ice sheets began retreating, an ice-free corridor opened through
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is already writing code, generating images, diagnosing patterns in medical scans, translating languages, answering complex questions and helping businesses automate work. So have we already created machines as intelligent as humans? Not necessarily. The distinction comes down to two terms that are increasingly used interchangeably even though they
Mystery
When 55-year-old Greg Fleniken was found dead inside Room 348 of the MCM Eleganté Hotel in Beaumont, Texas, almost nothing at the scene suggested murder. There was no obvious gunshot wound, no sign of a struggle, no robbery and no intruder waiting to be discovered. Yet Greg had
Wildlife
Imagine crawling across the African ground in 120-degree heat, trapped inside an 80-pound artificial crocodile, while real Nile crocodiles lie only a few feet away. Then imagine discovering that another enormous crocodile is approaching you from behind. That was the situation herpetologist and National Geographic explorer Dr. Brady
Travel
Darecations are one of 2026’s biggest travel trends, and the idea is simple: travelers are choosing challenge, adrenaline, and active experiences over passive beach breaks. Pinterest Predicts named “Darecations” a 2026 trend, and Euronews reported that Pinterest saw searches for adventure tourism rise 75% on the platform. That shift
Personalities
Happy birthday, Aisha Tyler! The actress, comedian, director, writer, producer, voice performer and television host celebrates her 56th birthday on September 18, 2026. Born on September 18, 1970, in San Francisco, California, Tyler has built one of those entertainment careers that refuses to fit neatly into a single category. She
Health
Imagine carrying a genetic change that subtly alters how your body handles energy for your entire life. You eat. Your cells receive fuel. But instead of storing quite as much of that energy as fat, your metabolism appears to push more of it toward breakdown, mitochondrial activity and energy expenditure.
Music
Dolly Parton spent a lifetime making herself impossible to overlook. There was the enormous blonde hair, the rhinestones, the unmistakable Tennessee voice, the quick jokes and the theatrical clothes she wore with complete confidence. But behind all that sparkle was one of America's most accomplished songwriters, a fiercely
History
Nearly 3,800 years ago, a Babylonian king ordered hundreds of legal judgments carved onto a towering black stone monument. The text dealt with debts, marriages, wages, theft, farming, property disputes, medical errors, slavery, business contracts and violent crime. Some punishments were financial. Others were horrifyingly physical. A builder whose