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The 13 Worst Jobs of the Last 2,000 Years
If you see "banquet attendant" jobs on LinkedIn, DO NOT APPLY
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TIME Picks the Most Surprising Photos of 2012
Clint Eastwood’s appearance and speech to an empty chair at the GOP convention stupefied us, Felix Baumgartner’s jump from 24 miles above the Earth astounded us and Gabby Douglas’ Olympic performance thrilled us. But now that it’s on the wane, we can step back and report that, all in all, 2012 held relatively few major surprises.
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Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men’s Pants
Just as underclothes are shielded from public view, the evolution of men’s most intimate apparel is shrouded in secrecy. But the story of men’s underwear is about more than which came first, boxers or briefs.
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How the ice ages ended
A study of sediment cores collected from the deep ocean supports a new explanation for how glacier melting at the end of the ice ages led to the release of carbon dioxide from the ocean.
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Family discovers fully-stocked fallout shelter in their back yard from the height of the Cold War
The shelter in Neenah, Wisconsin, was loaded with food, clothing, medical supplies, tools, flashlights and batteries.
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Who Invented Writing? An Animated Historical Detective Story
From Sumerian cuneiform to hieroglyphics to Chinese script, a tale of simultaneous invention.
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What Happened to Carrie?
One of the greatest and creepiest revenge movies of all time has been remade and is set for release next year because no one in Hollywood has any new ideas. Carrie remains a classic horror movie, that not only launched Sissy Spacek’s career, it was pretty terrifying.
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6 Of The Weirdest Things Science Has Recently Revealed About The Past
Scientific studies do a pretty good job of answering questions about how the world works.
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Germany Arrests 93-Year-Old 'Auschwitz Guard'
Hans Lipschis was deported from the United States to Germany in 1983 after U.S. authorities found that he lied about his past. German authorities are expected to charge Lipschis with accessory to murder.
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Rare and Classic Photos of the Original Sex Kitten...Bardot
All these years later, however, it’s still difficult for anyone who was not alive at the time to grasp the galvanizing effect that Bardot had — as an actress and as a sex symbol — on moviegoers around the world in the 1950s and early 1960s. Here, LIFE.com celebrates the young Bardot with a series of pictures — most of which never ran in LIFE — made by Loomis Dean in 1958.
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The 150 Things the World's Smartest People Are Afraid Of
The only things we have to fear.
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Abraham Lincolns suit and hat from the day of his death
Photograph by the Smithsonian circa 1890.
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10 Best Recent Dinosaur Discoveries
Dinosaurs aren't all big and scaly. The more fossils they find, and the closer they examine them, the more scientists realize how diverse these animals were. Sure, some were massive. Some took to the air on giant wings. But lots more scampered around on the ground chomping on vegetation.
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Depression-era 'Jay-Z' photo sparks time-travel discussion
A research centre at the New York Public Library posted a photo taken in Harlem in 1939 featuring a man who bares a striking resemblance to modern-day music producer, baseball agent and self-proclaimed best rapper alive Jay-Z.
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The great dinosaur stampede that never was?
It's billed as the world's only known example of a dinosaur stampede - but new research is challenging the established version of events at Lark Quarry, in the Australian outback, almost 100 million years ago.
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London in 1927
Incredible colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Frisse-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using the colour process his father William - a noted cinematographer - was experimenting with. It's like a beautifully dusty old postcard you'd find in a junk store, but moving.
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Was ending the draft a mistake?
Without conscription war has become an abstraction, enabling a new "era of persistent conflict"
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Hindenburg disaster in 1937
The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, which is located adjacent to the borough of Lakehurst, New Jersey.
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The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from
As society evolves, so do our curse words. Here's how some of the most famous ones developed -- and a few new ones...
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Adoption of New Technology since the year 1900
Some things take their time to mature, while others are spread like wildfire.
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