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The Mystery of 221B Baker Street
Our series on Design and Sherlock Holmes begins with an investigation into the location of the famous detective’s London flat
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The Swimsuit Series, Part 4: A Competitive Swimmer’s Musings
In Leanne Shapton’s Swimming Studies “Bathing” chapter, there’s a story behind every suit
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Round 1 of the Dinosaurs vs Aliens Throwdown
Does the first issue of Dinosaurs vs Aliens live up to the hype?
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Packing List Series, Part 1: Joan Didion
In 1979, “The White Album” gave smart women a straightforward guide to what to bring on a trip
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Daughters of Wealth, Sisters in Revolt
Gore-Booth sisters, Constance and Eva, forsook their places amid Ireland’s Protestant gentry to fight for the rights of the disenfranchised and the poor
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Meet Edith and Fanny, Thomas Jefferson’s Enslaved Master Chefs
Monticello research historian Leni Sorensen offers an impression of what life was like for these early White House chefs
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Flower Children on the North Shore of Kauai
In the late 1960s, a gorgeous stretch of beach in Ha’ena State Park was the site of a hippy haven called Taylor Camp
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What if Newton’s Principia Mathematica, Published Today, Had Been in Comic Sans?
The rage over CERN’s font choice drives the question: How would the world have reacted to Newton’s world-changing tome had Comic Sans existed at the time?
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Germans un-Kampf-ortable With Reissue of Hitler’s Tome
Starting in 2015, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf will once again be available to German readers
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Have You Ever Wondered How the Internet Works?
Andrew Blum, author of the new book “Tubes,” spent two years exploring the physical constructions around the world that enable the Internet to exist
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Layered, corseted summer garments kept women proper and fashionable, if not cool
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Movie Mash-ups That Beat Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
Mixing movie genres, from Abbott and Costello to SCTV
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A history of caricatures exposes the inside jokes
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Ambergris, the subject of a new book, “is aromatic—both woody and floral. The smell reminds me of leaf litter on a forest floor.”
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The Peas that Smelled the Leaky Pipe
In 1901, a 17-year-old Russian discovered the gas that tells fruits to ripen
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Home of the heart-shaped tub, the Pennsylvania mountains once rivaled Niagara Falls as a honeymoon destination
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Curious about the middle ground between fresh and rotten? These four books tell you how to preserve the fleeting tastes of spring
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Mark Kurlansky on the Cultural Importance of Salt
Salt, it may be useful to know, cures a zombie
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