Researchers investigate case of soft-tick borne relapsing fever in Austin area

TIL that CERN physicists wrote parody lyrics for Howie Day’s 2004 hit “Collide” from the perspective of a proton in the Large Hadron Collider. Day saw their parody on Twitter and contacted CERN himsel

TIL of the Elaine Massacre of 1919 in Arkansas. Over three days black people were hunted and killed by whites until Federal troops arrived. Afterwards 12 black men were sentenced to the electric chair

TIL of Don Ritchie; a man who lived close to a notorious suicide spot who officially prevented 180 suicide attempts. He would approach an individual and simply ask, "Can I help you in some way?"