Ancient Greek philosopher Chrysippus (279–206 BC) is believed to have died of laughter in a bizarre incident recorded by his ...

Wedding traditions are rooted in superstition, religion and cultural exchange, even as couples continue to reinterpret them ...

Directors such as Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg and a sky full of stars, including Ryan Gosling, Tom Cruise, Matt ...

Some things never change -- humor, luckily, is one thing that hasn't changed a great deal, as we can see by the comedies of ...

As we take stock of 2025, here's one metric - the number of women directors dropped this year, at least those with movies in theaters. And as NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, their numbers were not exactly ...

Only 8% of directors with movies in theaters in 2025 were women. That news comes from an annual study from USC Annenberg. It reveals a reversal of trends that were not great to begin with; in 2020, ...

The annual Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report out of USC finds that only nine women directors worked on the 100 top-grossing films of the year. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter ...

The Greeks proposed the idea that humans are a form of artificial intelligence. Prometheus and Hephaestus use technology to manufacture men and women. As historian Adrienne Mayor reveals in her book ...

The curious skeleton of a Roman-era individual in Britain, nicknamed the Beachy Head Woman, is not who we thought she was. It turns out this mysterious woman is not the 'first Black Briton', as some ...

Dec. 18 (UPI) --The Women Film Critics Circle has voted Rose Byrne's If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as the year's Best Movie About Women. Hamnet was another big winner, scoring the prizes for Best Movie ...

The term "bowdlerization," meaning censorship, originated from efforts to rewrite works like Shakespeare's plays for "family reading." Throughout history, men have worn what is now considered drag in ...