After the 1885 completion of the first Canadian railroad to cross the Rockies, Prime Minister John A. MacDonald and his wife Agnes resolved to travel the length[...]

Boosting face mask efficacy: a cheap 3D printable solution. Keeps potentially contaminated droplets INSIDE the mask ... and keeps your glasses from steaming u[...]

"[D]espite having the conventions and plot structures of a detective story, the pleasures that Clue offers aren't the pleasures of a successful detective story.[...]

In ancient times / Hundreds of years before the dawn of history / Lived a strange race of people, the Druids / No one knows who they were or what they were doin[...]

In 2016, the internet archive added a repository of console demos, which today has almost 600 entries. Demos involve bare metal hardware hackery to get the bes[...]

"When I mentioned that male sage grouse often copulate with dried cowpies, I didn't do the situation justice. I will elaborate in a twitter thread. For most mal[...]

Neighbors are now putting theirs back up in solidarity. "No one really knows what is going on inside the house or why we didn't take down the decorations," said[...]

A Guide to America's Regional Pizza Styles

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history of the flea circus, flea jumps through a hoop, fleas pull carriages I am reminded of pet leeches.

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In Sequel Rights: A Review of Locus Reviews, Foz Meadows critiques a review written by Katharine Coldiron of The Ikessar Falcon by K.S. Villoso in the latest is[...]

A smuggling operation, a scientific analysis and a cracked code. All helped an astrophysicist conclude that a portion of major league baseballs used in 2020 wer[...]

As we've seen, though, debates about PWAs being represented with dignity and agency date back to the start of the epidemic, as does the fight to preserve sex-po[...]

Photographer Brendan George Ko captures monarch butterflies at their southernmost migration stop in central Mexico, and the environmental destruction and violen[...]

The Atlantic presents the winners of the 2021 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest. More information on the UPY home page, including short video clips f[...]

UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders In 1967, the FBI quietly unleashed a covert surveillance operation targeting "subversi[...]

Hall and Oates "Method of Modern Love" Every once in a while and completely unbidden, the lyrics to Method of Modern Love leak out of the toxic waste disposal u[...]

Introducing the Skelecaster: yes, this dude built a guitar out of his dead uncle's skeleton. Bone-shredding video included.

An oral history of Barbara Kruger's famous poster from The Gentlewoman -- its beginnings in 1989, its travel to Poland in the 1990s, its contemporary life as mu[...]

Charisma Carpenter accuses Joss Whedon of abuse. Charisma Carpenter alleges Joss Whedon "abused his power on numerous occasions" while she performed on Whedon's[...]