How to Color The World

Feb 7, 2022

In addition to classifying thousands of animals and plants, early naturalists faced an enormous challenge: accurately describing their color...

Weighing The Mayor of High Wycombe

Feb 4, 2022

Every year at the Annual Meeting of the Charter Trustees of the town of High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, England, a new mayor is elected. T...

The 477-Mile Lightning Bolt

Feb 3, 2022

How far can a lightning bolt travel? Awfully far, as revealed by the World Meteorological Organization recently. In a press release publi...

Inflated Bullock Skin Boats

Feb 3, 2022

In the early 1900s, American school teacher, traveler, and photographer, James Ricalton, went to India and traveled extensively throughout t...

How a Finnish Polka Song Defeated The Mighty Red Army

Feb 2, 2022

Three months after Hitler invaded Poland triggering a series of nasty and costly wars across the world, the Soviet Union took the opportunit...

Operation Epsilon: When Allied Forces Locked Ten German Scientists Together in a House

Feb 1, 2022

Near the end of World War 2, the Allied forces arrested ten German scientists who were thought to have worked on Nazi Germany's nuclear ...

The Nazi Gold of Merkers Mine

Jan 31, 2022

When the advancing Third Army of the United States marched into the captured German town of Merkers-Kieselbach towards the end of World War ...

Ancient Board Games

Jan 28, 2022

Playing games is a great way to socialize with friends and pass time in an enjoyable way. Humans recognized this a long time ago before ther...

Juliane Koepcke: The Girl Who Fell From an Airplane And Survived The Rainforest

Jan 25, 2022

Juliane Koepcke was seventeen and desperate to get home. She had just graduated from high school in Lima, and was returning to her home in t...

The Kopp–Etchells Effect

Jan 24, 2022

When American war correspondent and photographer Michael Yon went accompanying US soldiers to Afghanistan in 2009, and began photographing t...