Society

Born into a mining family, it wasn’t long before he followed in his father’s footsteps. Safety was one of his main concerns.

Virtual grocery shopping comes to Seoul’s subway system

Many parents try to soften the blow with white lies, but a proper burial—or flush—might be best

The Ghost Chef makes dinner, then slips out and lets you take all the credit

A tool that lets users export their Facebook ‘friends’ to a rival service may expose the site’s Achilles heel

Catch up on everything you wish you’d learned in school, a half-hour at a time

The Stampede is the West’s acknowledged mecca for excessive fairground cuisine

Panspermia is meant to maintain Earth’s evolutionary path

Cigarettes would only be available with a prescription

Canadians will obey a host of environmental regulations, but an apparently innocuous light-bulb policy may be going too far