10 Ridiculously Complicated Ways People Used to Tell Time
Before smartphones and wristwatches, telling time required a little more ingenuity—and a lot more moving parts. From burning candles with
Before smartphones and wristwatches, telling time required a little more ingenuity—and a lot more moving parts. From burning candles with
For most of us, the fiction of a movie is pretty much where it ends, but there is always a
There is a famous European folk story about a young chicken who somehow gets it into his head that the
Every year, scientists track thousands of asteroids that pass near Earth. Some of these are big enough to destroy an
Biology isn’t just a subject—it’s the story of life itself. Our understanding of the living world has been pieced together
Just like every time period and subculture, the Old West was populated with people who used a certain vernacular. Mostly
A fair number of songs have been misunderstood by the general public, but there are usually also many people who
Franchises should ideally be simple. If a story is successful, then it gets a sequel to expand on its ideas
We tend to notice big extinctions—elephants, glaciers, coral reefs. But not everything that vanishes makes headlines. Some losses are quiet,
Captured and jailed in 2011, Joaquin Guzmán, aka “El Chapo,” escaped in a laundry basket, only to be arrested and
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