Greenland was the stepping stone that made the Viking discovery of America possible. After Erik the Red founded the Greenland settlement, his son Leif Erikson used it as the launch point for voyages ...

In 1973, Yale sociologist Kai T. Erikson got a phone call from an attorney, asking him to recommend a graduate student who could consult on a class-action lawsuit in West Virginia coal country. The ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Editor’s Note: This is one of Popular Mechanics’ greatest stories. It was initially published in December 2022. On December 9, 2013, 13-year-old Jahi McMath was checked in to Oakland Children’s ...

KNIFE RIVER, Minn.– The near century old ship gifted from the city of Duluth is receiving its finishing touches from its restoration process. Knife River had received the Leif Erickson Viking ship ...

Save Our Ship, Inc. has been working on the restoration. It will debut at the annual “Julebyen Christmas Village” celebration in Knife River. The boat was built in Norway in 1926 as a replica of the ...

Drone and robotic solutions company Red Cat Holdings said Chief Financial Officer Christian Ericson has been named chief operating officer. Ericson joined Red Cat in March as CFO. Prior to that, he ...

A professor at Yale, he immersed himself in communities after catastrophic events like Three Mile Island, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and Hurricane Katrina. By Michael S. Rosenwald Kai T. Erikson, a ...

Dave Erickson, the co-creator of “Fear the Walking Dead,” sued AMC Networks on Wednesday, alleging he has been denied his rightful share of the show’s profits. He becomes the seventh “Walking Dead” ...

Lawsuits and The Walking Dead have become as synonymous as the hit TV show and zombies. Over the past decade-plus, six writers, directors, and producers have sued AMC over money they are owed for the ...

Thanksgiving is a time when family and friends can come together with an attitude of gratitude and enjoy a festive meal and good company. It's a time when, at least in America, we remember where we ...

The cause of death of Cleto Escobedo III, longtime bandleader of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, has been revealed. According to the musician’s death certificate, obtained by TMZ, cardiogenic shock was listed as ...