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Incredibly after a run of forty-one years, the Chicago Tribune announced on this day in 1975 that it would be revising its style guide...

Above-ground nuclear testing , conducted primarily by the US and the USSR, from the late 1940s to early 1960s caused a global increase in th...

ephemeral 80s : a side project from Curios British Telly   informal collaborator : methods of surveillance and monitoring by the Iron Curt...

The winners of the annual Ig Nobel prizes ( see previously ) were recently announced and there are, across several categories and dis...

Courtesy of Things Magazine , we are referred to a rather fascinating look at how a battery of psychological experiments conducted at th...

Via Kottke , we are introduced to a project called the Network of Time linking celebrities, politicians and historical figures by their ...

Via MetaFilter , we get the chance to revisit our favourite seventeenth century admiral and polymath Prince Rupert of the Rhein through ...

Via Super Punch , we learn that the honest-to-goodness academic term for the kink that can sometimes occur in both naturally-occurring and m...

Via ibīdem , we are directed to a retrospective look at an unusual best-selling album—reminiscent of this extensive audio survey givi...

Via Clive Thompson’s latest Linkfest , we are afforded the chance to revisit the myth of Hermaphroditus through modern scientific conjec...

Begun on this day in 1961, the eponymous battery of social psychological experiments were conducted under the supervisor of Yale professo...

Having recently pondered the convergent instances of evolution that birthed multiple iterations of the crab and crab-like , we quite enjoyed...

Outliving her discoverers and with a career spanning the Victorian Era, under the care of a succession of Edinburgh naturalists, the beadle...

the people of 1925 : a survey of a century ago through the lives of people we never knew—via Strange Company   the zendian problems : a de...

A couplet of recent postings about synthetic geology caught our eye—first about the accelerated process of material formation reduced to d...

ped x’ing : an urban hawk takes advantage of a crosswalk signal to shield it from view as it stalks its pigeon bounty—via Clive Thompson’...

Convinced that this subject was one that we had visited before for its relation to emoticons, emoji and ASCII art and surprised to find t...

On this day in 1961, Lee Harvey Oswald was granted an exit visa to the return to the United States after two years of living and working in ...

Named after queen Hadassah of the Hebrew bible who canonically revealed the designs of the Persian vizier to execute the Jews of Persia and...

Via Waxy , we found this meta-analysis from the Pudding of gendered characters in children’s literature to be quite engrossing and seeing t...