Roman soldiers pelted rebels with signed slingshot bullets
In 39 BCE, a Roman governor decided to drive a message home to revolters in present-day Spain in the...
Author : Cathy Klein
WWII helped create Tupperware. Potlucks made it iconic.
In the 1950s, plastic quickly began infiltrating the American household. Women slipped into nylon stockings and Bakelite jewelry; their...
Strait of Hormuz ship bottleneck could fuel invasive species nightmare
The ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the United States’ war with Iran may not only be...
Information isn’t sterile. It’s stranger than you think.
Excerpted from How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information by Thomas S. Mullaney with permission of W. W. Norton...
Make a plan for your digital photos after you die
It’s not something anyone really wants to think about, but what happens to those thousands of digital photos on...
How do garbage trucks work?
Week after week, like clockwork, your trash seems to vanish into thin air: Set the bin on the curb...
This free AI music detector will scan through your playlists for audio slop
We know that generative AI models are now smart enough to produce images, videos, text, and audio that—most of...
Man builds DIY train station departure board
There’s something oddly calming about gazing up at a train station departure board. Maybe it’s the pixelated glow from...
Man builds homemade X-ray machine
X-ray imaging is best left to the professionals for a good reason. While the tool is not dangerous when...
Airplane seats really are getting smaller
Airplane seats can feel ridiculously small. It’s gotten to the point where I, a small woman of average height,...