The World’s First Cyber Attack Happened Nearly Two Hundred Years Ago

Mar 25, 2019

Many say that the world’s first cyber attack happened in 1988, when Robert Morris, a 20-something graduate student at Cornell, inadvertentl...

The Red Taj Mahal: John Hessing’s Tomb

Mar 22, 2019

The Roman Catholic Cemetery in Nehru Nagar, Agra, harks back to a time when the many princely states that eventually united to become India ...

Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Saved Lives

Mar 20, 2019

In the fall of 1943, as German soldiers began rounding up Jews in Italy and deporting them by the thousands to concentration camps, a myster...

Why Did Ancient People Bury Butter in Bogs?

Mar 19, 2019

Peat bogs are favorite hunting grounds of archeologists because of the many odd surprises these marshy wetlands have revealed from time to t...

The Stockholm Lights That Can Be Controlled By Anyone With A Phone

Mar 18, 2019

The 72-meter tall Phone Tower at the former headquarter of Ericsson at Telefonplan, in southern Stockholm, is a known landmark. It is the t...

Alai Minar: Alauddin Khilji’s Unfinished Minaret

Mar 18, 2019

The Qutub Minar in New Delhi is a well known landmark. The sandstone-colored minaret with intricately carved inscription and reliefs on its ...

The Wheel of Urine

Mar 16, 2019

A pot of urine can tell a lot about your diet and health. It can tell whether you are adequately hydrated, or how well your kidneys are func...

The Building That Steals Your Body Heat

Mar 15, 2019

More than a quarter million commuters pass through the Stockholm Central Station everyday, unaware that their bodies are being tapped for e...

The World’s Most Inland Lighthouse

Mar 13, 2019

Of all the lighthouses in the world, none was built further from the body of water it lit than the one on top of Bidston Hill, on the Irish ...

What Grandmas Around The World Cook

Mar 12, 2019

I love photography projects that explore different cultures of the world—like Julian Germain’s photos of classrooms from various countries ,...