The Copper Man Buried with All the Amber
A team of archaeologists from Petrozavodsk State University in Russia discovered the burial site of a Copper Age man who was buried with more...
The 17th Century Man in the Moon
In a post on Mysterious Universe, Brent Swancer writes about the first attempt to reach the moon, which was mounted in the late 1600s.
John...
When Did You First Feel Terror?
This week's Write the Book prompt was suggested by guest Karen Joy Fowler, author of Booth, a historical novel featuring John Wilkes Booth. Fowler...
You Read it Here First
In an article for Writer's Digest, Erica Plouffe Lazure says that a good newspaper offers both ideas and craft techniques for fiction writers. "Any writer...
What’s Hip at the Cat Café?
This week's Write the Book prompt is inspired by the Brooklyn Cat Cafe. "One of the earliest cat cafes in the U.S., the Brooklyn...
The Stories Behind the Art
In a post on Mental Floss, Jon Meyer shares the true-life inspirations behind some well-known works of art. He examines the stories behind:
1. Claude...
He Dowses for the Dead
The Marshall Project shares the story of a diviner who teaches crime scene investigators at the National Forensic Academy to dowse for corpses. Believers and...
What Kind of Mountain Lays Eggs?
For decades, geologists have observed a bizarre phenomenon at China's Mount Gandang. About every 30 years, a cliff on the side of the mountain...
The Strange Story of the Tombstone Pterodactyl
In a post on Mysterious Universe, Brent Swancer shares the tale of a pterodactyl sighting in Tombstone, Arizona, in the 1800s, one of many...
How Old is Old?
A new study has determined that the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils ever discovered in East Africa - the Omo I and Herto fossils...
