Throughout history, philosophers, teachers and religious leaders have used stories and parables to help us understand intangible, often complex, concepts. One of my favorites is the Indian parable of ...

We've been waiting for a real flying elephant ever since Disney released the movie Dumbo in 1941. Unfortunately, the following image, purportedly showing a baby elephant hovering off the ground, is ...

Elephants have many admirable qualities: They have an excellent sense of smell, rarely get cancer and have complex social lives. But, perhaps unsurprisingly, they can't jump. It's hard to say why that ...

Ever have a question occur to you that you just know there's no obvious, ready answer to? Something like, "Why do they have brail markings on drive up ATMs" or, "What are those black specks on corn ...

The second photo in our State Fair caption contest is from 1960 and features a member of Aut Swenson’s “Thrillcade” revue jumping an elephant with a pickup truck in the Grandstand. A trainer appears ...

It always happens with new technology. People can't quite get their heads around it, so they latch on to some feature or another and assume they've understood the whole thing — a modern replay of the ...