History
Seven Islands to Visit in 2012
Pitcairn Island is populated by 50 people, has a handful of hostels, a general store and a café and, frankly, could really use a few visitors
Huxley’s Apocryphal Dinosaur Dinner
Fossil lore says 19th century naturalist T.H. Huxley realized that birds were dinosaurs when he carved into a Christmas turkey, but what really happened?
The Wonderful English Pudding
Pour flaming brandy over the hot pudding - the blue flames dance and sparkle around the traditional sprig of holly stuck into the top of the pudding
Why Did Jewish Communities Take to Chinese Food?
The historical and sociological reasons why the Jewish community and Chinese restaurants pair so well on Christmas
Brain Pickings' Top 11 History Books of the Year
The editor behind the site that curates the best content on the web lists the most interesting history books of 2011
Hitchcock’s Primeval Birds
Paleontologist Edward Hitchcock was one of the first dinosaur track experts, but why did he insist that birds left the footprints?
A Comedy of Dinosaur Errors
If any dinosaur has a tortured history, it's the giant predator Saurophaganax
Dinosaurs In Space!
It's not just science fiction—dinosaurs have already been in space twice
The Edible Is Political: Cookbooks from Both Sides of the Aisle
The cookbook has been a campaign tool for the women's suffrage movement, John F. Kennedy and now Ron Paul
Farthest South: News from a Solo Antarctic Adventurer
Aston is in no-man's land, where schedules and responsibility carry little relevance, but she is bound by one logistic: "I can't miss the last plane out"
Who Wrote the First Dinosaur Novel?
A decade before The Lost World debuted, one science fiction writer beat Arthur Conan Doyle to the dinosaurian punch.
Tourtière: Québecois for Christmas
For French-Canadians, the must-have holiday food is a spiced meat pie
The Great Battles of History, in Miniature
At a museum in Valencia, Spain, over one million toy soldiers stand at attention, prepared to reenact the wars that shaped the world
Cooking Through the Ages: A Timeline of Oven Inventions
How much has technology really changed since the first ovens, wood-fired hearths?
Q&A With a Back-to-the-Roots Grain Grower
Baker Eli Rogosa talks about how supermarket flour differs from flour made from heritage grains such as einkorn
Zen and the Art of Sleeping Anywhere
By camping wild, we bypass unloading the luggage, taking off our shoes at the doorstep, and all the other logistics of dwelling in a well-groomed society
Salisbury’s Medieval Market
The open-air market began in the early 1200s, when what we now call “farmers’ markets” were merely “markets” and “eating local” was merely “eating”
Scrapple: the Meatloaf of the Morning
Like the McRib, scrapple is a distinctively American pork product and a regional favorite
The Origin of a Little Tyrant
Is "Nanotyrannus" a small-bodied tyrannosaur, a juvenile of some unknown species, or a young Tyrannosaurus rex?
Beam Me Home, Please
Putting one’s means of transportation into a box while miles of travel remain is as clever as stepping into a shopping bag and attempting to carry oneself
Page 61 of 85