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There's a Crime Wave in New Zealand Because of Avocado Shortages
(Photo: slgckgc/CC BY 2.0)Last year was a bad year for avocado crops in New Zealand and around the world, and now the beloved green commodities are fetching far higher prices than normal in the island...
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Confetti Candy, the Ancient Italian Predecessor of the Tic Tac
Confetti candy made into flowers. (Photo: Ra Boe/CC BY-SA 2.5)Wedding season in the Northern Hemisphere is already in full swing, which means a lot of guests will soon be going home with small net bags...
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Goldfields Water Supply Scheme in Mundaring, Australia
During the 1890s, much of the world was struggling economically. Many European countries were just starting to emerge from the “Long Depression” while in the U.S. the “Panic of 1893” had hit the...
View ArticleNew App Explores the Secret Development Location of the First Atomic Bombs
During the early part of WWII, the U.S. military brought some of the brightest scientific minds in the U.S. together in an isolated pocket of New Mexico. The top-secret location became known as the Los...
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Forbes Pigment Collection in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Begun in the early 20th century by Edward Waldo Forbes, director of the Fogg Art Museum from 1909 to 1944, the Forbes Pigment Collection is housed under the greater umbrella of the Harvard Art Museums...
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The 'Mystery Plays' Banned by the Tudors Are Now Showing in an English Cathedral
The York Mystery Plays at York Minster, May 2016. (Photo: Anthony Chappel-Ross)Lucifer, the bringer of light, has been cast from heaven, his wings torn to bloody shreds and his once-white robes...
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Irish National Stud and Gardens in Tully, Ireland
Horse racing can be a very polarizing sport, but the extraordinary specimens living at the Irish National Stud are the best of the breed.In the year 1900, Colonel William Hall Walker purchased a modest...
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The Story Behind the Most Baffling Photo Taken on the Golden Gate Bridge
(Photo: OpenSFHistory/wnp14.2949.jpg)The man in the goggles above is named Angelo Rossi, and before he was mayor of San Francisco and cut through a silver chain with a torch on the Golden Gate Bridge,...
View ArticleFound: A Hidden Tasmanian Shipwreck
In Tasmania, where it’s winter and storms have been flooding the north of the island, the severe weather has also exposed 19th century shipwrecks usually buried beneath sand and water.One, the Zephyr,...
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La Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Vézelay, France
Amid the fields of sleepy countryside that stretch toward the horizon is the small village of Vézelay, its old stone buildings built upon a hill. The town's slender walkways and narrow cobblestone...
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Mongolia's New Address System Gives Every Location A Poetic Three-Word Name
Under the what3words system, it's easy (or easier) to send mail to this spot in Chowd-Aimag, Mongolia. (Photo: Bernd Thaller/CC BY 2.0)It's hard to get mail in Mongolia. The countryside is large and...
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I Tried a Medieval Diet, And I Didn't Even Get That Drunk
A kingly feast, from the Bayeux Tapestry. (Image: Public domain)It can seem sometimes like all diet advice boils down to the same basic ideas. Eat vegetables, healthy proteins, avoid processed snack...
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Black Holes Collided and Produced a New Set of Gravitational Waves
(Photo: Public Domain)Back in February, scientists announced that they'd found something predicted by Albert Einstein way back in 1915: gravitational waves. The waves, which are essentially undulations...
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This Year's Class of Surfers to be Inducted Into the Surfers' Hall of Fame
The Duke is about to welcome three new friends. (Photo: Joel Kramer/CC BY 2.0) Akaw! From the Blue Room to the walk of fame, three legendary surfers have recently been added to the Surfers' Hall of...
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Northern Ohio School in Earle, Arkansas
In the early 1900s, most Arkansas children received their educations in one-room schoolhouses, many of which were located in rural areas. The Northern Ohio School is the only remaining one-room African...
View ArticleWatch Ducklings Follow Various Creatures That Are Not Their Mom
Upon opening their eyes to the world, baby ducklings instantly identify the first thing they see as their mother. This "imprinting," as it's known, helps them establish their identity, form a bond, and...
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Blue Flash Backyard Roller Coaster in Bruceville, Indiana
In a way, the "Blue Flash" homemade roller coaster validates the ethos of another surprising backyard Midwestern construction project: "If you build it, they will come."John Ivers, an unassuming...
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The Pilots Who Risked Their Lives to Deliver the Mail
From left to right: Pilots Jack Knight, Clarence Lange, Lawrence Garrison, "Wild Bill" Hopson, and the administrator of the Omaha airfield, Andrew Dumphy. (All Photos: Courtesy of the Smithsonian...
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In A City Of Murals, The Simplest One Stands Out
The candy-pink exterior of the Paul Smith Los Angeles store. (Photo: Richard Moross/CC BY 2.0)When the British designer Paul Smith opened his Los Angeles location in 2005, the exterior of the new store...
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Elstedhaven in Snedsted, Denmark
Whether it’s called Elstedhaven, Bibelhaven, the Elsted Garden or the Bible Garden, this small patch of land of one devout Danish farmer has taken on a life of its own.Peter Hvidberg was known as a...
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