Tomorrow in Wales, a race where there are human runners and horses with riders on the same course, trying to get to the finish line ahead of each other. And it all started with an argument in a pub.
There’s a tradition around this time of year in Wales called Mari Lwyd. It starts with a knock at the door in the winter night, and it only gets spookier from there.
This month in 1878, a horse named Sallie Gardner ran past a series of cameras in Palo Alto, California. The series of photos those cameras took paved the way for motion pictures.
A project out of the University of California - Davis uses images from a very well known navigation system to help slow the spread of invasive species.
Today in 1924, another one of these early Olympic events that went way off the rails: a very difficult and very strange mens’ cross country race.
They were like "do you want to go into McDonald's to buy the ice cream?" and the horse said "Neigh"
It was around this time in 2006 that a Navy veteran named Don Karkos got headbutted by a horse… and it turned out great!
Firefighting is dangerous work, in part because of the exposure to dangerous chemicals. Researchers are learning more about those exposures thanks to a simple silicone wristband.
National Library Week is here, so it’s a good time to tell the story of librarians who traveled through eastern Kentucky during the Great Depression on horses and mules carrying books and magazines in saddlebags.
Back about 120 or so years ago, in Berlin, Germany, you might have encountered a strange sight: a man named Wilhelm Von Osten asking math questions of a horse named Clever Hans. Was the horse actually solving the problems, or was something else at work?
