Deputies were called to an ice cream parlour in South Lake Tahoe, California, after the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office received reports of an unusual disturbance on 17 August. Entering the shop, th

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While the original National Folklore Survey from the 1960s was unscientific and open ended, simply asking random people “what do you know to be true?”, its 21st century successor is a very different b

I read recently that scientists allegedly agree that there is no increase in extreme weather events and conditions. If that’s so, the journals I checked must not yet have got the memo. The German Helm