Michelle Obama Addresses Girls’ Education

Last spring, Michelle Obama launched Let Girls Learn, a global initiative to get more girls into the classroom. This week she’s traveling to the Middle East, where she’ll meet with young schoolgirls in Jordan as well as speak to national leaders at a conference in Qatar. Ahead of her visit, FLOTUS wrote an op-ed in The Atlantic detailing the major roadblocks that keep countries from …

The Science Behind “Goosebumps”

With Halloween upon us, there’s likely a hair-raising situation waiting to give you goosebumps, chicken skin or make your skin crawl. Those might seem like silly terms, but they all come from the fact that, when we’re scared (or cold), muscles tug at our hair follicles, causing our hair to raise and giving our skin a bumpy texture similar to that of a featherless chicken. …

The Best Horror Movie Monsters

Halloween isn’t just for trick-or-treating and haunted houses, it’s the most appropriate time to binge-watch classic horror movies. Grantland has taken some of the trouble out of finding the perfect film with their comprehensive “Best Horror-Movie Monsters” list. The monsters chosen had to pass five strict rules: no humans, no real-life animals, no “benevolent” monsters, no temporary monsters (like werewolves) and, lastly, no classic horror …