The Trojan War was fought in Finland and Ulysses sailed home to Denmark, says one controversial theory.
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a medieval airship!
An un-crewed sailing drone discovered the unusually shaped, slumbering seamount.
The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.
Mansa Musa, perhaps history’s richest man, claims he ascended the throne of Mali after his predecessor sailed west and never came back. Could he have made it to the New World?
On New Year’s Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific steamliner sailed into history. Or did he?
The most celebrated genius in human history didn’t just revolutionize physics, but taught many valuable lessons about living a better life.
Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
Long before Christopher and Magellan, ancient explorers voyaged into the unknown and brought home extraordinary tales.
How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
It’s a radical but plausible idea.
“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.
Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.
Do you always act professionally in the workplace? Depends what you mean by “professional.”
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
From questionable shipwrecks to outright attacks, the Sentinelese clearly don’t want to be bothered.
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
You could call this rectangle covering parts of Iran, Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula the “Oven Window.”
Architecture in the age of AI — argues professor Nayef Al-Rodhan — should embed philosophical inquiry in its transdisciplinary toolkit.
The Uros of Lake Titicaca live on floating islands made from reeds. How did they get there?
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works engineering division has devised many jaw-dropping aircraft. Here are some of the best — and one ship.
It’s nearly 20,000 miles long.
A battle between different kinds of love.
With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
By the end, even his mom wanted him gone.
Bathybius haeckelii was briefly thought to be the link between inorganic matter and organic life.