British neurologist John Hughlings Jackson once said that the first man who insulted another person instead of "knocking out [their] brains without a word" actually laid the groundwork for ...

(CNN) — If you’ve ever “flipped the bird,” you have something in common with ancient Greeks. It was around 2,500 years ago that the naughty Greeks developed a phallic gesture to offend, taunt and ...

Expert fingerprinters held a party in Manhattan last week to observe a new, clean method of performing their job. The standard system requires the subject to smudge his thumbs and fingers with ...

No one knows whether Plato ever flipped anyone the bird — but he might have. People have been raising their middle finger to indicate something other than “Does this cuticle need trimming?” since the ...

Pope Francis stirred up a bird’s nest on social media with a tweet, now deleted and replaced, extolling the virtues of “the middle finger” as being a reminder about honesty. The Pope‘s viral tweet was ...