Cool Finds

Cool Finds

Orson Welles Wrote a ‘Citizen Kane’ Sequel

The greatest movie never made?

October 13, 2015

Cool Finds

How the Journalist Who Broke the News of World War II Got Her Scoop

Somebody needs to make a movie about Clare Hollingworth

October 13, 2015

Cool Finds

Watch These Giant Rats Sniff Out Landmines

Giant rats can detect TNT decades after it was buried

October 13, 2015

Cool Finds

Who Will Save the World’s Chocolate?

As climate change threatens cocoa crops, rival food companies are banding together

October 12, 2015

Cool Finds

This Swiss Watchmaker is Teaching Apprentices For Free

The U.S. desperately needs new watchmakers. Will a new generation save the industry?

October 12, 2015

Cool Finds

A Woman Bought a House For $100,000, Then Learned Frank Lloyd Wright Built It

She had no idea her Madison, Wisconsin, home was part of the famous architect’s affordable housing project

October 12, 2015

Cool Finds

How the Tetris Theme Song Was Made

A small piece of hardware produced the iconic sounds of gaming

October 9, 2015

Cool Finds

Thanks to Augmented Reality, These Coloring Books Come to Life

The new technology takes 2D pictures and turns them into 3D magic

October 8, 2015

Cool Finds

Listen to the Sweet Sounds of Slime Mold

Two artists transform the bioelectricity of microorganisms into song

October 8, 2015

Cool Finds

The Only Eyewitness Painting of Lincoln’s Assassination Is Finally Being Restored

How a forgotten portrait of the president’s dying hours was saved

October 8, 2015

Cool Finds

Ray Harryhausen’s Movie Memorabilia Goes Up For Auction

Sketches, models, and a treasure trove of collectibles from Hollywood’s first king of special effects

October 8, 2015

Cool Finds

Watch Drones Drop Thousands of Moths on Crops

Swarms of sterile moths could be coming to a cotton farm near you

October 8, 2015

Cool Finds

Iraqi Museum Discovers Missing Lines From the Epic of Gilgamesh

One of the world’s first great stories just got a new chapter

October 7, 2015

Cool Finds

In Vietnam, the C.I.A. Paid Spies With Stuff From Sears

Nothing says “clandestine espionage” like a mail-order catalog

October 6, 2015

Cool Finds

Feast Your Eyes on an Optical Illusion Cake

This may be the most delicious optical illusion

October 6, 2015

Cool Finds

A Lunch Menu From the Titanic Just Sold for $88,000

The “unsinkable” ship served corned beef, mutton chops and custard pudding

October 5, 2015

Cool Finds

Michigan Farmer Stumbles on a Mammoth Skeleton

Paleontologists excavated the skeleton, prying the bones from the dark muck of the field

October 5, 2015

Cool Finds

How a Captain Morgan Advertisement Inspired an Emergency Room Technique

Captain Morgan, hip fixer

October 5, 2015

Cool Finds

Here’s What Whale Songs Look Like as Sheet Music

Musical notation created by a musician and a designer make whale song look almost like an alien language

October 5, 2015

Cool Finds

Why Scientists Are Gathering Seeds From Roadside Sunflowers

Climate changes threatens commercial sunflower production, where plants are grown for their oil

October 5, 2015