Discover Edo, the Historic Green/Sustainable City of Japan
When you picture modern day Tokyo, what comes to mind? The electronic billboards of Shibuya and Shinjuku? The teeming streets? The…
Understanding Espresso: A Six-Part Series Explaining What It Takes to Pull the Ideal Shot
It doesn’t take long to learn how to pull a shot of espresso. Search for that phrase on Youtube, and…
Woolly mammoth meatball – would you eat one? | Science & Tech News
A meatball has been made from the recreated flesh of the long-extinct woolly mammoth as part of a project to…
Listen to The Epic of Gilgamesh Being Read in its Original Ancient Language, Akkadian
Creative Commons image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin Long ago, in the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, Akkadian was the dominant…
Bristol triplets set Guinness World Records for most premature birth and lightest combined weight | UK News
Triplets born at just 22 weeks and five days have been awarded two Guinness World Records. Rubi-Rose, Payton Jane and…
A Medieval Arabic Manuscript Features the Designs for a “Perpetual Flute” and Other Ingenious Mechanical Devices
In the late twelfth and early thirteenth century there lived a mechanically inclined polymath named Badi’ al-Zaman Abu-‘l-‘Izz Ibn Isma’il…
The Pulp Magazine Archive Lets You Read Thousands of Digitized Issues of Classic Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Detective Fiction
Pulp Fiction will likely hold up generations from now, but the resonance of its title may already be lost to…
What is nitrous oxide? What you need to know about laughing gas set to be banned by the UK government | UK News
Nitrous oxide – also known as laughing gas or nos – is set to be banned as part of a…
Sniffing other people’s sweat can help treat social anxiety, study suggests | World News
Sniffing other people’s body odour may be able to help treat social anxiety, according to new research. Armpit sweat was…
Strangest supermarket online shopping substitutions – including sellotape instead of toilet roll | UK News
From Sellotape instead of toilet paper to strawberries in place of binbags, some of the strangest supermarket substitutions have been…