August 2019 - Page 4 of 6

How Museums Make Their Fake Foods Using Real Recipes

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(via Atlas Obscura) At Colonial Williamsburg, creating historic food scenes is a team sport.

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(via Listverse) Food is the one constant that binds us all. Every culture has its own style of cooking. We

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(via Smithsonian) In the 1930s, a forgotten federal bureau experimented with ways to make soy and other products more popular

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(via Mental Floss) Shakespeare wasn’t wrong when he said that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

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(via Mental Floss) At 9:40 a.m. on the morning of August 11, 1934, Alcatraz’s first group of prisoners—137 in all—arrived

(via mental_floss) Born in the Republic of Venice in 1254, Marco Polo was a trader, traveler, and adventurer, who (probably*)

(via Great Big Story) Justin Schmidt is an entomologist who studies stinging insects. Through the course of his work, he

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(via Amusing Planet) Rooftops make great gardens, especially in dense urban environments where every available space has been utilized for

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(via Listverse) Looking at old photographs, it is easy to imagine that the past was a drab place. Even old

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(via Popular Mechanics) These ancient Mesoamericans might have beaten the Greeks to the magnetic punch.

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(via Atlas Obscura) Turns out massive flood control projects are a great way to find dinosaurs.

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(via Amusing Planet) Gisborne Airport is a small regional airport that is located on the western outskirts of Gisborne, the