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Abandoned Beatles Ashram Is Opened to the Public for the First Time in a Long, Long, Long Time
Get back to the site of the Fab Four’s disastrous meditation retreat
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Why Does Moby-Dick (Sometimes) Have a Hyphen?
The hunt for the true story behind Melville’s hyphen is as mysterious as the famous white whale
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When Rock Was Banned in the Soviet Union, Teens Took to Bootlegged Recordings on X-Rays
Teens snuck jazz and rock into the U.S.S.R. on records made of old x-rays
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There’s a ‘War and Peace’ Marathon Going On in Russia
It will take 1,300 readers four days and 60 hours to read the book out loud
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Cut Paper Sculptures Capture the Intricacy of Natural Architecture
Laser and hand cut papers arranged in layers evoke the patterns of microbes, moss, cells and more
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See the Vatican Light Up With Images Warning Against Climate Change
Animals prowled across St. Peter’s Basilica in a move to connect Earth’s beauty with the dangers of climate change
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A French Scientist Says the Mona Lisa is Hiding a Portrait of Another Woman
Some art experts, however, are skeptical
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Bibi the Lioness, a BBC Star, Was Found Poisoned
Bibi and another unidentified lion killed by the poison were part of a pride that filmmakers followed for years
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Finally There’s a Scientific Theory for Why Some Words are Funny
The science behind Dr. Seuss
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A Buddha in Japan Is Missing Half of Its Curls
What happened to the Buddha of Nara’s famous ‘do?
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The CIA Won’t Reveal What’s in its Secret Art Collection
An art installation questions why the CIA is keeping mum about a series of abstract paintings
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There’s a Philly Sign Language Accent
The unique signs used by people in Philadelphia hint at the history of sign language in the U.S.
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How Twitching Frog Legs Helped Inspire ‘Frankenstein’
Galvanism sought to reanimate the dead—and in doing so provided the impetus for one of literature’s most famously frightful books
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It Can Take More Than 10 Years of Work to Get a Christmas Tree Ready for Market
Helicopters can speed along the harvest, however
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Yearbook Photos Show How Smiles Have Widened Over the Decades
An analysis of roughly 38,000 high-school senior portraits shows Americans’ frowns turning upside down
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Hundreds of Fake Ads Protest Paris Climate Summit’s Corporate Sponsors
Artists in Paris distributed 600 posters calling out companies’ hypocrisy
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Minecraft Players Are Recreating Scenes From Studio Ghibli Movies
Now gamers can romp around Yubaba’s Bath House and clamber into a Catbus
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A Nine-Year-Old Aspiring Journalist’s Heartwarming Connection with NASA
A popular photography blog helped one kid interview NASA administrator Charles Bolden
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A Hemingway Book Has Hit the Paris Bestseller List After Recent Attacks
A Moveable Feast declares that “there is never any end to Paris”
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