The Daily Populous

As the eighteenth century wore on, some fossils emerged that could not be tied so neatly to the known living species.

But, at the end of the century, a French naturalist popularized an astonishing revelation: some species had actually vanished from the face of the Earth.

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) joined the fledgling National Museum in Paris in 1795, and quickly became the world's leading expert on the anatomy of animals. »

Whatever you might think of him, Bill Gates is a man who knows a thing or two about a thing or two.

Gates recently sat down for a lengthy interview with The Atlantic about energy, the economy, and innovation.

Gates has committed $2 billion of his own to incentivize clean energy R&D, and he thinks others should do the same. »

Rock star Marilyn Manson was injured during a concert in New York when a large piece of stage scenery fell on him on stage.

The prop - apparently two large guns held together with metal scaffolding - fell as he was performing at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Saturday.

An eyewitness told the BBC that the singer lay on stage for up to 15 minutes covered by a sheet before he was carried out on a stretcher and taken to hospital. »

Police in riot gear fire rubber bullets at pro-independence activists.

Ballot boxes seized by police in referendum banned by Madrid.

Spanish riot police fired rubber bullets and seized ballot boxes from polling stations in Catalonia on Sunday as thousands flooded the streets to vote in an independence referendum banned by Madrid. »