The Kepler Space Telescope: The equivalent of keeping your gaze steady on a grain of salt from a quarter mile away science
Secret Fore-Edge Paintings Revealed in Early 19th Century Books at the University of Iowa art, history
Seeds of Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness,” in His Terrifying, Tightly-Packed Notes art, history
Map of Where 29,000 Rubber Duckies Made Landfall After Falling off a Cargo Ship in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean (#19), and 39 Other Informative Cartographies could be anything
The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart art, history
A Second Life in a Second Language: A Change of Language for a Writer Is a Dangerous Thing art, history
What Is the Icelandic Word for “Four”? Fjórar. No, fjórir. No, fjögurra. No, fjarki. No … could be anything, science
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