Naturopathy, sometimes referred to as "natural medicine," is a largely pseudoscientific approach said to "assist nature" [1], "support the body's own innate capacity to achieve optimal health" [2], and "facilitate the body's inherent healing mechanisms." [3] Naturopaths assert that diseases are the body's effort to purify itself, and that cures result from increasing the patient's "vital force." (Whatever that is!)

How many hoops can a person hula? Marawa Ibrahim holds the record at 200—but when she's twirling a modest 100, her skill makes your head spin.

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Pat Schottler enjoys the thrill, speed and rush of water skiing. But a recent adventure on Medicine Lake sent the Plymouth man to the emergency room.

Northern Mariana Islands relies on a single under-sea fiber cable, which broke.

We bought two, and since we can't return them, we decided to destroy one and share!

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This GIF morphs through every different phase of stormtrooper helmet from the first seven Star Wars films.

John Green looks at some unusual, old remedies people used to use.

Ladybaby combines the furious intensity of screamo metal with the saccharine sweetness of J-pop. Despite forming in May, the trio has become an online sensation and just embarked on an international tour.

Dying is a fact of life, as is the disposal of a body after the fact. You know all about burial and cremation, but here are the other ways people, past and present- have dealt with the departed.

A couple of weeks ago Adam Savage made a screaming rubber bird bomb. Now he has made an even bigger, more awesome, screaming rubber bird bomb.

Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health.

When RS+ designed a new walkway on the edge of Paprocany Lake in Poland, they included a section with nets for people to lay in. The nets, which are set into the wooden promenade and hang over the water, allow people to experience a different perception of the area.

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Ted Richards from UK, who had his face and eyeballs tattooed to look like his pet parrots, has gone a step further by cutting off his ears in order to look more like his pet parrots.

To vanquish a vampire, one generally employs a stake, a cross, a string of garlic, or a combination of all three. But there's one highly effective anti-vampire weapon that few think to use: math. A surprisingly large number of academic studies—as in, more than one—have applied mathematical modeling to the concept of human-vampire co-existence. Using the depiction of bloodsuckers in various forms of media, from Bram Stoker's Dracula to True Blood...

Meteorologist Danielle Banks shares a fun video of a sheep who's just one of the dogs.

After a 2015 snowfall, the people of Wejherowo, Poland, were shocked to see that one of their statues had transformed into a tribute to Star Wars villain extraordinaire Darth Vader.

J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Maggie Stiefvater, Rainbow Rowell. You might like their work, but would you have a beer with them?

They're a fact of life for travellers, and only considered at the airport or when they're lost, but have you ever considered why passports look the way they do?

The man behind the popular campaign to name a British polar research ship Boaty McBoatface apologises for the storm it has created.

At De Biergrens beer shop, you can walk in from the Netherlands through one door and walk out into Belgium through another.

The following map shows the number of Nobel laureates per 10 million inhabitants in European countries (the smaller caption shows the actual number of Nobel laureates). It is based on a Wikipedia article that lists all Nobel laureates by country (there are a few cases where the map differs from the Wikipedia article, listed at the end of this article).

It is becoming more and more clear that GDP (gross domestic product) alone is not a good indicator of a country's performance.

Some names were deemed no longer suitable. The Civil Rights movement had a direct impact on Crayola’s core stable of shades. In 1962, Crayola voluntarily changed “Flesh” to “Peach” in an attempt to preempt any potential legal issues—and to encourage coloring enthusiasts the world over to diversify their stick figures.

What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on? The result would be this disconcerting, disorienting map.

Many of the sabotage instructions guide ordinary citizens, who may not have agree with their country’s policies, to destabilize their governments by taking disruptive actions. Some of the instructions seem outdated; others remain surprisingly relevant. Together they are a reminder of how easily productivity and order can be undermined.