Best of 2025: All Our Number Five Story Picks

Is reincarnation real? Is communication from the “beyond” possible? A small set of academics are trying to find out, case by case.

January 13, 2025 – “The drama was in the dirt.”

Many owners think so, thanks to the “talking buttons” craze on TikTok and Instagram. Scientists are less convinced.

Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by a traditional katana my grandfather had brought home from Japan in 1945. Years later, I decided it was time to find the heirloom’s rightful owner.

You know him for his comedies, his love of weed, and his raspy chuckle. In his new series, 'The Studio,' Rogen plays an aspiring Hollywood mogul. But in real life the forty-two-year-old actor and producer is already one of the most powerful people in show business—even if he won’t admit it.

As cats evolved from feral ratters into beloved Victorian companions, a nascent pet-food economy arose on the carts of so-called “cat’s meat men”. Kathryn Hughes explores the life and times of these itinerant offal vendors, their intersection with a victim of Jack the Ripper, and a feast held in the meat men’s honor, chaired by none other than Louis Wain.

Our writer, a lonely tweenager in rural Ireland, took to his computer and found new galaxies of possibilities – on a Big Brother forum.

Our writer endured boozy days, sleepless nights in a hostel, and edge-of-your-seat racing at Kitzbühel’s legendary Hahnenkamm

Harvey Silikovitz first auditioned for ‘Jeopardy!’ in 2001. On Monday, he finally got a chance to play.

The Dublin-based Irish Pub Company has designed upwards of 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries around the globe

On patrol with the Guardian Angels

The actor has starred in over 70 films — and been a scene-stealer in them all. So when he’s not working, what does he do for fun?

And only one of them <em>really</em> knows how to load it.

In "The Cult of Creativity," Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, and an ideology.

When the way ahead isn’t clear, the solution, sometimes, is to eat.

A set of experimental techniques and technologies that might seem harmful to trees is actually helping ancient forests survive.

The story behind cinema’s most mysterious bird.

May 9, 2025 – “The Guide is either the train hopper’s Bible or an outdated relic, a must-have or a crutch, depending on whom you ask.”

Haines resident Michael Thompson found his long lost father in Scotland after decades long on and off search.