The Birdcage and La Cage aux Folles: An epic stage to screen journey ~lgbt history Video 54:46 1 vote
Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? Fears about attention spans and focus are as old as writing itself. ~creative Article 3055 words 7 votes
The unfathomable scale of the Brussels Palace of Justice ~design architecture Article 3659 words 9 votes
How the inventor of the troll doll missed out on a fortune ~design Article 2172 words, published Feb 11 2023 5 votes
Douglas Adams on the 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' game (1985) ~games Video 9:50, published Jan 30 2022 4 votes
How a shipping error 100 years ago launched the $30 billion chicken industry ~food history meat Article 2677 words 7 votes
The most important year in the history of science fiction is 1973, because that’s when science fiction ended ~books science fiction Article 1096 words 8 votes
Charles Silverstein, who helped declassify homosexuality as mental illness, dies at 87 ~lgbt history activism Article 1112 words 8 votes
In 1952, a landslide caused a tsunami that killed a Greenlandic man – some researchers think he might have been an early victim of anthropogenic warming ~enviro climate change Article 861 words 2 votes
The forgotten story of Modulex – Lego's lost cousin ~hobbies Video 31:33, published Feb 3 2023 7 votes
Lost and found: Codebreakers decipher 50+ letters of Mary, Queen of Scots ~tech Article 655 words 7 votes
The National Museum of Denmark is paying tribute not to professional archaeologists, but to amateurs with metal detectors ~hobbies Article 455 words 3 votes
Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease. ~health.mental Article 1561 words, published Jan 26 2023 9 votes
Manchester City striker Erling Haaland eyes Dixie Dean's 95-year-old record of sixty league goals ~sports.football Article 966 words 4 votes
The first ordinary woman in English literature. The life and legacy of the Wife of Bath. ~books literature.english Article 2201 words 5 votes
‘Oh my God, this is big!’ How The Cardigans went stratospheric with Lovefool. ~music Article 855 words 3 votes
The murky, salty mystery of Worcestershire sauce - The peppery sauce may be wildly popular, but its ingredient list and origin story are shrouded in secrecy ~food history recipes Article 2197 words, published Jan 11 2023 7 votes
The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare ~finance economics Article 9435 words 7 votes
Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape (2000) ~tech Video 56:09, published Aug 12 2013 4 votes
Twelve years before the Nintendo Wii took over living rooms, Sports Sciences released Batter-Up, a motion-controlled baseball bat for the Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and personal computers ~games Video 14:29 6 votes
Megacities: Reality or fiction? Architecture in sci-fi. ~design urban planning architecture Video 16:42, published Nov 11 2022 4 votes
Andy’s Pop Life - Revisiting Steve Schapiro’s historic 1965 visit to Andy Warhol’s Factory and his travels across the US with a cadre of Superstars ~arts art.pop photography filmmaking art.performance Article 1246 words, published Jan 19 2023 2 votes
Gaytopia: Fed up with the horrific discrimination and violence against his community, Don Jackson had a plan to turn a remote spot in Northern California into the world's first gay-majority county ~lgbt history activism Article 5233 words 7 votes
Meet the Appalachian apple hunter who rescued 1,000 ‘lost’ varieties ~food history Article 1923 words, published Jun 3 2021 10 votes
US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years ~humanities.history Article 1508 words 8 votes
A lecturer showed a painting of the prophet Muhammad. She lost her job. ~life education.higher Article 2558 words 13 votes
World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing ~humanities.languages Article 476 words 9 votes
Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway ~humanities.history Video 11:42, published Dec 25 2022 4 votes
How Edvard Munch's friend Thomas Olsen hid the masterpiece 'Dance on the Beach' in a remote barn in the Norwegian forest to foil the Nazis ~arts art painting Article 864 words 4 votes
Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal ~science Article 897 words 5 votes
Sabaton awarded Enlightener of the Year Award 2022 by The Swedish Skeptics Association – presented to those that go above and beyond in order to educate people ~music metal.power Link 10 votes
Would you fall for it? General Motors' propaganda video from the 1950s. ~transport Video 26:47 8 votes
‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests ~science chemistry Article 677 words 13 votes
A crucial particle physics computer program risks obsolescence ~science physics.particle Article 798 words 12 votes
Meet the man who invented microtransactions years before Oblivion’s horse armour ~games Article 1351 words, published May 30 2020 6 votes
ABBA's massive 1979 hit Chiquitita has never earned the Swedish supergroup a penny – Björn Ulvaeus gave the copyright to Unicef ~music pop Article 935 words 6 votes
Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson: The man the UFC erased ~sports.combat Video 11:48, published Aug 26 2022 4 votes