Scientists may have detected the somewhat smelly chemical dimethyl sulfide on a planet 120 light-years from Earth.
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New radiocarbon dating reveals astonishing insights.
Stories of child prodigies and the naturally gifted hide the fact that success is built on more than talent alone.
True north, magnetic north, and grid north have aligned. There’s also a connection to James Bond.
The zebras were originally part of a newspaper tycoon’s private zoo. Now they roam the San Simeon grasslands, growing in numbers.
A famous explorer’s doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.
Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.
Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?
William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.
“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
All of these conflicts have a long history. They may also have a long future.
Sobering accounts from one of the most pivotal battles in world history.
What qualifies someone for the top position in American government?
Maps show the oldest company in (nearly) every country – and a few interesting corporate trends.
The distance between the American dream and reality is expressed best through literature.
For nearly 50 years, a charred lump of Dead Sea Scrolls has been sitting in a lab, too brittle to unroll. Now it’s been virtually unwrapped using 3D technology, and the contents are intriguingly – and significantly – petty.
The sender didn’t have a name nor an address for his letter. So he drew a map instead.
No doubt you’ve heard one of these arguments given as a reason against gun control. Problem is, it’s very dubious logic.
Instead of choosing sides, this map shows all versions of the cartographic argument.
“riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,” begins James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, opening a torrent of words that has drowned many readers in confusion […]
Maybe you’ve never heard of Emmaland or Sophialand, but if you’re reading this in the United States, there’s a better than 90% chance that you live in either one of […]
One of cartography’s most persistent myths: mapmakers of yore, frustrated by the world beyond their ken, marked the blank spaces on their maps with the legend Here be monsters. It’s […]
I wanted my audience to identify with Shylock in a deeply personal way, so much so that they would involuntarily nod and think, “Yes, I understand, I have been there.”
William Souder’s 2004 biography of John James Audobon, Under a Wild Sky, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His newest book, On a Farther Shore, chronicles the life and […]
Mitt Romney will win the nomination. Rick Santorum’s victory in Louisiana only delayed the inevitable. Santorum gained just 5 delegates in Louisiana on Romney, who is still 295 delegates ahead. […]
A former British Prime Minister, James Callaghan will forever be remembered for the words ‘Crisis? What crisis?’ eventhough he never actually said them. Callaghan had the misfortune of having his […]
The stories intertwine on the point of personality: is Mark Zuckerberg a genius? Is Julian Assange? At what point does (at least in Aaron Sorkin’s vision of the Facebook founder, […]
n n What is it with airlines and maps? Which part of ‘atlas’ don’t they understand? You’d think that, being the business of transportation, they’d get their distances and directions […]
n When it comes to the discovery and colonization of America, Iceland can claim a longer pedigree than all other European countries. The Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson (970-1020) was the […]