The Tortoise and the Hare is one of the most famous fables of all time, with it being taught to millions of children every year. But now a farm in Beijing has tested out if Aesop's fable is true to ...

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. ...," said Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes and guys and girls, hold on to your chairs, it is true. From time ...

When the new London-based news platform Tortoise chose to investigate migration it uprooted its newsroom to a refugee camp on Lesbos and convened a recorded discussion in which local migrants and ...

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As a child when growing up, one would be familiar with the popular story of the race between the tortoise and the hare. The two animals were made to compete in a real-life race to test the validity of ...