for inquiring minds and the curiously inclined

The unsung heroes of the St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum are none other than a team - nay, army - of cats. The museum’s collection was...

Roman Mars, the host of 99% Invisible (a fantastic podcast) is particularly passionate about flags. He even gave a TED Talk on the...

In 1851, the inventor of the sewing machine - Elias Howe, Jr. - patented the Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure device. AKA, the...

When it's safe to visit large indoor spaces again, we encourage you to pay attention to the acoustics. Like us, you probably take it for...

The natural world can appear beautifully spontaneous and unpredictable, but there's often method to the madness. The Golden Ratio...

Two things are certain - history repeats itself and humans love a good poem. So you can imagine our delight when we stumbled upon these...

We’ve always been told that money doesn’t grow on trees, but could furniture? One couple in the UK is testing this adage by doing just...

In 2019, scientists at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) developed the blackest pigment on record - ten times darker than the...

Nestled in Switzerland’s capital city of Bern sits a statue of an ogre eating a bag full of babies. Wait, what? The nearly 500-year-old...