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The Case of the Mysterious, Thirteenth-Century Eruption Might Finally be Solved
In A.D. 1257 a massive volcano erupted, spreading ash all over the world. The problem is that scientists have no idea where the eruption happened
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Lysol’s Vintage Ads Subtly Pushed Women to Use Its Disinfectant as Birth Control
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Lysol isn’t even an effective contraceptive
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Funding Gaps Have Only Forced Government Shutdowns Since the 1980s
Funding gaps didn’t always bring a shut down of the federal government
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There Used to Be an Entire Museum Full of Weird, Old Robots, And You Can Still Take a Video Tour
Today, people can get their old creepy robot fix on the internet. But there was once a whole museum devoted to old bots
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Archaeologists Looking for a Sultan’s Buried Heart Found a Whole Town Instead
Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent’s missing heart still has not been found, but archeologists searching for it did discover a lost, ancient Ottoman town
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Be Careful When Taking Pictures of Other People’s Art
The U.S. Postal Service owes the man who sculpted the Korean War memorial nearly $685,000
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China Claims to Have Bought a Huge Chunk of Ukraine
China says it’s purchased 3 million hectares of Ukrainian farming land, but Ukraine says it has no intention of selling land to China
The U.S. Nearly Nuked North Carolina
North Carolina was saved from nuclear devastation by one little switch
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Kenya in Context: Malls Around the World That Terrorists Have Attacked
Lots of people, lots of exits, lots of packages—a few of the reasons why shopping malls are targeted
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Bagels And Lox Are a Uniquely American Creation
Lox didn’t originate in New York City. Nor did bagels. But putting them together, that is a distinctly New York Creation
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s Short History as an Officially Recognized Political Party Is Over
Amidst an ongoing military crackdown, Egypt bans the Muslim Brotherhood
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This Engraved Infographic of the Revolutionary War Is From 1871
This engraved infographic from 1871 shows the major events of the Revolutionary War, and some beautiful subtle additions
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Legos Helped Restore a 3,000-Year-Old Sarcophagus
Lego platforms propped the sarcophagus in place from the inside, allowing the researchers to work on the ancient materials without fear of collapse
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Google Earth Is Lending a Hand with Land Mine Clearing in Kosovo
Google has teemed with the Halo Trust, a non-profit that works to remove land mines and other unexploded ordinances that often linger after a conflict ends
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This Map Is a Crash Course in European History, 1 A.D. to Today
A three minute video shows 1000 years of European conquest
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Three Ancient Rivers, Long Buried by the Sahara, Created a Passage to the Mediterranean
One river system, called the Irharhar, appears to have been a particularly popular travel route, corroborated by both model simulations and artifacts
Two Dozen Corpses, Beheaded Around 1,400 Years Ago, Found in a Cave in Mexico
In a cave in Mexico, the disembodied corpses of dozens of people
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Valley Fever: The Fungal Spores that Plague Archaeologists
When you spend your time digging in dirt, you get exposed to all sorts of nasty spores
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An Assassin’s Bullet Took Three Years to Kill NYC Mayor William Jay Gaynor
Gaynor collapsed and died from a bullet that had been lodged in his throat for three years - put there by an eventually successful assassin
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In Case You Forgot, Egypt Is Still in the Midst of a Major Conflict
What started a month ago with protests-turned-deadly has not gone away
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