Life will always find a way to split rock, and ultimately all buildings will return to dust and will be re-absorbed into the living world. But some temples take thousands of years to subdue, and continue to dominate the shape of the forest many generations after they were abandoned and ...
A high-tech face-off may happen in a very low-tech way. We talk about the tragedy of the Titan submersible, what is and isn’t okay to comment on, and the culture around real-life epics compared to their fictionalized portrayals. Got something weird? Email neshcom@gmail.com, subject ...
When the invention made its way to the West, pig hair was deemed too harsh for the gums and many replaced the pig hair with horsehair. Animal hair was only replaced in the 1930s with the invention of nylon. However, you can still buy pig hair toothbrushes. Those looking to reduce their...
sea horses, or Jenny Hanivers, has fortunately fallen out of fashion. But beach combing is still a great way to come upon all sorts of interesting bits and pieces brought in on the tide and tossed ashore by a wave to dry in the sun. ...
"notable people who have been stung by jellyfish" and "jellyfish who have stung notable people". excellent. 8) wikipedia has had more than 1 billion edits, across 17.6 million articles, from 27 million users you knew wikipedia was big, but the best way to get some grasp of exactly how...
amputation was flawed (actually performed by a dentist), and he would need to go to a proper hospital in Japan or he could die. Mizuki left his Tolai family with a promise to return in seven years and live out his life in New Guinea. But other things got in the way of his promise...
Either way, it was not practical to spell it ‘frig’ or ‘fridge’, and therefore the letter d was added by analogy with words like ‘bridge’. Just as with most abbreviated words, it is believed that the word fridge was already popular in spoken English before it was used in print....
she turns the tables on him—as in the book, he flees when she accosts him, rather than the other way around. Such is the topsy-turvy nature ofAlice, where expectations stand on their heads. We can’t be hurt in dreams, and Alice was immune to injury in Carroll’s books; Humpty ...