Real-World Final Destination
Like characters in a real-world version of Final Destination, these people miraculously avoided a painful death, but not for long. A post on Mysterious...
“I Didn’t Want to Steal It, but I Did.”
As part of her interview with the Write the Book podcast, Caitlin Hamilton Summie (Geographies of the Heart) offers this prompt: “I didn’t want to...
The Lost Secrets of the Antikythera
Full disclosure: When this editor read the Golden Compass, he had no idea that an antikythera was an actual real-world object. Sue me.
A post...
The First Social Network
Fifty thousand years ago, people in Africa traded beads for necklaces and bracelets as a form of social contact, according to an article on...
Where Will You Go After Death?
Elmer McCurdy was an outlaw who met an untimely end at the hand's of law enforcement in 1911, according to a post on History...
That’s a Lot of Color
Artist Concetta Antico sees the world a bit differently than the rest of us, and not merely because of artistic license. Antico is a...
Oh, Florida Man
The Florida Man meme goes back way further than we could ever have imagined, according to an article on Second Glance History.
According to newspaper...
Reinvent Your God in Your Own Image
You probably haven't heard of Julian of Norwich, whose first-person account of religious visions - Revelations of Divine Love - is the earliest surviving...
It’s Not Just COVID – We’re Missing 1 Billion Years of...
An article on Vice says that scientists believe they've identified the reason for a billion years of missing information from the fossil record. We...
World’s Longest First Date
An unexpected COVID-19 lockdown forced a Chinese woman to remain in place at her blind date's house for at least a week, according to...
