The World’s 25 Largest Lakes, Side by Side
(via Visual Capitalist) In many parts of the world, you don’t have to look very far to find a lake.
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Month: September 2021
American History as Seen Through Quilts
(via Smithsonian) For historians, the textiles are much more than just decorative covers for a bed
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Top 10 Surprising Scientific Mysteries
(via Listverse) Science has come such a long way it’s laughable. Ancient humans used to mistake every correlation for causation,
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Peru’s Incan Rope Bridges Are Hanging by a Thread
(via Atlas Obscura) A remarkable ancient technology and tradition that united communities in the Andes is fading into history.
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Are These Snail Shells the World’s Oldest Known Beads?
(via Smithsonian) Found in a Moroccan cave, the prehistoric jewelry dates to between 142,000 and 150,000 years ago
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10 Intriguing Stories Surrounding The World’s Tallest Statues
(via Listverse) Statues immortalize important moments in history, represent a central belief or celebrate a major accomplishment. Statues have been
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10 Innovative Devices From the History of Espionage
(via Listverse) Do spies really use cool gadgets like in Hollywood movies? Yes, they do! Obviously, intelligence agencies have only
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Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery
(via Smithsonian) New technical analysis dates Yale’s Vinland Map to the 1920s or later, not the 1440s as previously suggested
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How Artificial Intelligence Completed Beethoven’s Unfinished Tenth Symphony
(via Smithsonian) On October 9, the work will be performed in Bonn, Germany, and a recording will be released
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The Ancient People Who Burned Their Culture to the Ground
(via Atlas Obscura) At a site in Spain, archaeologists piece together the last days of Tartessos, an advanced society that
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6 Surprising Facts About Jim Henson
(via Mental Floss) If there’s anyone to thank for your early childhood television obsessions—specifically of the puppet variety—it’s Jim Henson.
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The Curious Task of Digitizing Darwin’s Beans and Butterflies
(via Atlas Obscura) From squeaky beans to arsenic scares, conservation is full of surprises.
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