Some discoveries are the first—and likely the only one—of their kind. But uniqueness is not their only trick. Extreme rarity often begets mystery, as human knowledge has nothing to compare these oddities against. Such cases make for fascinating reading, too. From an impossible stellar explosion to a glass brain, hereContinue Reading
History loves heroes—but it also loves irony. For every tale of noble death or triumphant finale, there’s another where greatness collapses into absurdity at the finish line. From warriors who survived countless battles only to fall in ridiculous accidents to geniuses undone by their own obsessions, these are the storiesContinue Reading
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Dan Selcke is a pop culture fanatic who writes and talks about movies, TV and books, the nerdier the better. He’s been working on news, reviews, editorials, interviews and podcasts for over 10 years, bringing a wealth of experience. Dan has been published in The A.V. Club, Metro, Salon andContinue Reading
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Stas Malyarevsky/Shutterstock If you tried to use YouTube early Friday morning, you might have been among the many that found themselves struggling to get videos to load. Reports of YouTube being down flooded Downdetector around that time, with a peak of over 1,300 reports popping up before 9:00 a.m. ET.Continue Reading
The Great Depression was one of the darkest chapters in American history. Millions of people lost jobs, homes, and savings; breadlines and shuttered factories became part of daily life. Yet even in that bleak decade, the human spirit refused to break. Families found creative, inexpensive ways to laugh, play, andContinue Reading
It took well over a century for archaeologists to start taking ancient tattoos seriously, with old colonialist attitudes and more contemporary stigmas steering scholars away. What’s more, ancient tattoos can be difficult to study: Tattooing tools are tricky to identify in the archaeological record, and only rarely is ink wellContinue Reading
Lichens are symbioses between fungi and algae (and/or cyanobacteria) that play important ecological roles and colonize many substrates, including fossils. According to new research, they can serve as biological indicators of fossils in western North America and can be identified using remote sensing. Preferential colonization of dinosaur bones by lichens.Continue Reading
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