Guillame Legros’s Ephemeral Landart

Sep 8, 2018

These gigantic graffiti artworks spray-painted over the fields and the hillside were made by Swiss artist Guillame Legros, who goes by the n...

Inemuri, The Japanese Art of Sleeping at Work

Sep 8, 2018

In most countries sleeping at work is not only embarrassing, it might even cost one’s job. But in Japan, sleeping in the office is common an...

Dr. Charles Campbell And His Malaria-Fighting Bat Towers

Sep 7, 2018

Sixty years ago the United States took upon itself a challenge—eradicate malaria from the entire country, all 3.8 million square miles of it...

Moldova’s Underground Wine City

Sep 6, 2018

The tiny landlocked country of Moldova in Eastern Europe is one of Europe’s poorest. “The roads are a bone-shaking ordeal. Horses haul carts...

The Miniature Coffins of Arthur’s Seat

Sep 5, 2018

At the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh are a set of eight miniature coffins carved in wood and decorated with tinned iron. Each cof...

Xiaohe: A 4000-Year-Old Desert Cemetery

Sep 5, 2018

In the far eastern edge of the desolate Taklamakan Desert, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest settlement, a clump of dense wooden stake...

The Most Kissed Girl in The World: The Mona Lisa of The Seine

Sep 1, 2018

Sometime in the late 19th century, the body of a young woman was fished out of the Seine River in Paris. Because there was no evidence of vi...

The Mail That Was Smuggled to The Moon

Aug 30, 2018

A lot of objects flew to the moon and back aboard NASA’s Saturn rocket. During the Apollo missions and those before that, astronauts were al...

Hungary’s Hyperinflation: The Worst Case of Inflation in History

Aug 29, 2018

The amount of Bolivars needed to buy 2.4 kg of chicken in Venezuela today. Photo credit: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters The economic situa...

Alberta’s War on Rats

Aug 28, 2018

The brown rat is an extremely invasive species—a pest, that survive on human-produced garbage, usually, but often times this nasty rodent ...