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This Guy Dug a Well in 40 Days After His Wife Was Denied Access to Water
(Photo: Neogeolegend/CC BY-SA 3.0)An Indian man dug a well for his wife in just 40 days, after she was denied access to a community well by upper-caste villagers, according to the Press Trust of...
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The Eyes of God in Karlukovo, Bulgaria
Located in the Iskar Gorge amidst one of Bulgaria’s largest karst regions, Prohodna is one of the best-known caves in a country full of them. This is thanks in large part to the eerily symmetrical...
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The First Restaurants Only Served Soup
Trendy bone broth pop-ups are far behind the original restaurants, which only served patrons soup. (Photo: Hoyabird8/CC BY-SA 3.0)Humans have always known, on some level, that soup is good for...
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Giraffe Manor in Nairobi, Kenya
The Rothschild Giraffe is one of the most endangered giraffe subspecies in the entire world. They have gone extinct in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo and only remain in Kenya and...
View ArticleWatch These Amazing Alpine Goats Scale a Near-Vertical Dam
On the face of the 160-foot-tall, near-vertical Cingino Dam in northern Italy, mountain goats cling skillfully to the stones that jut out from the wall. In this video, the Alpine ibex (Capra ibex)...
View ArticleA Teen Says He Found a Lost Mayan City Using Old Star Maps
Canadian teen William Gadoury discovers lost Maya city https://t.co/k8iHHSQDLkpic.twitter.com/cOvh0uFJR3— Stuff.co.nz News (@NZStuff) May 10, 2016UPDATE: A lot of scientists have expressed their...
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Russia Built a Huge Tunnel to Save a Near-Extinct Group of Leopards
An Amur leopard. (Photo: William Warby/CC BY 2.0)Amur leopards are among the world's most endangered species, with only around 70 known to still exist. Around 56 of those are in a national park in...
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The Small London Company That Makes the World's Most Beautiful Globes
Mini Desk Globes and an Ochre Livingstone desk globe in Bellerby & Co's London studio. (Photo: Ana Santl)Looking at a globe close-up is a wonderful thing. Interacting with a round replica of our...
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Found: A Fugitive of 48 Years, Outed by His Social Security Application
Stackowitz when he was arrested. (Photo: Georgia Department of Corrections)Forty-eight years ago, in 1968, Robert Stackowitz was in a low-security prison work camp in Georgia, serving a 17-year...
View ArticleSold: A Custom Revolver Owned by Brigham Young
We've received several requests and are happy to announce that the Brigham Young Colt revolver sold for $632,500! pic.twitter.com/PRnj8lIu5P— Rock Island Auction (@RIAuction) May 1, 2016 The...
View ArticleA Secret, Wild Pocket Of Central Park Reopens
Hallett Nature Sanctuary in New York's Central Park. #newyorkcity #newyork #hallettnaturesanctuary #centralparkA photo posted by Abhirak P. (@abhirak) on Sep 25, 2015 at 12:33pm PDTCentral Park is...
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The Hidden History of America's 19th-Century Mania for Panoramic Prints
A view of Colorado Springs. (Image: Henry Wellge/Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division)Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler died while working on a view. In 1922, when he slipped on the ice in...
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A Look Inside Florence's Strangest Archive
One of six archival rooms on the first floor of Tuscany's Villa le Corti. They hold the Corsini family’s archived history, from the 1360s through the 1960s. (Photo Courtesy New York Times Style...
View ArticleWatch a Man Tightrope Walk Across the Moon
There is nothing quite like a long lens shot of the moon: the resulting shots make our closest neighbor appear supernaturally enormous. Even more magical is when a subject is placed in front of the...
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This Scientist Has Created Speakers That Spew Scents, Not Sounds
Cyrano is David Edwards new invention to communicate through scent. (Photo: © Wayne E. Chinnock/Vapor Communications) David Edwards is obsessed with olfaction. The Harvard University professor has...
View ArticleChina Is Tired of Graffiti Artists at Mount Everest
China to 'name and shame' tourists who leave graffiti on Mt Everest https://t.co/P9gmjQyZAUpic.twitter.com/I39lz1Qtmj— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 11, 2016A lot of people go to Mount Everest,...
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NASA Just Found 1,284 New Planets
(Photo: NASA/Public Domain)NASA said Tuesday that they had discovered 1,284 new planets, over 100 of which are said to be Earth-sized. NASA used its Kepler observatory, which orbits the Earth on a...
View ArticleThis Egyptian Coffin Held the Smallest Known Mummified Fetus
Youngest-ever mummified foetus from Ancient Egypt discovered in tiny coffin. More here: https://t.co/saIvKnWHe4pic.twitter.com/5KySzV99zv— Rembrandt's Room (@RembrandtsRoom) May 11, 2016New scans...
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When the Air Force Dropped a Nuclear Bomb on South Carolina
A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.If you ever find yourself traveling on Crater Road in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, be sure and carve out a few moments for a marker...
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How Novels Came to Be Written in the Voice of Coins, Stuffed Animals and...
A 19th-century typewriter. (Photo: Pixabay)The most popular novel of 1760 England was an episodic narrative of the observations of a mind-reading coin imbued with the very spirit of gold itself.Largely...
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