Music in The Clouds

Feb 7, 2019

In June 1867, James Glaisher, an English astronomer and meteorologists, and an avid balloonist, was floating over Paris in a balloon when h...

Globsters: When Sea Monsters Wash Ashore

Feb 7, 2019

On November 30, 1896, two young boys, Herbert Coles and Dunham Coretter, were bicycling along Anastasia Island, near St. Augustine on the At...

James Hiram Bedford: The First Person To Be Cryogenically Preserved

Feb 5, 2019

Will humans ever posses the technology to revive a dead person back to life? Dr. James Hiram Bedford certainly hopes so. He has been waitin...

Gyrobus: The Flywheel-Powered Public Transportation

Feb 5, 2019

Back in the 1940s, Swiss engineers developed a new kind of zero-emission electric bus that used a large spinning flywheel to store energy ra...

Hagfish: The Slimy Creature of The Deep

Feb 4, 2019

Hollywood horror movie monsters and aliens aren’t complete without loads of repulsive slime, mucous and saliva dripping from their mouths. ...

Halton Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies

Feb 2, 2019

Less than one hundred years ago, astronomers were not even sure whether our galaxy made up the entire universe or there were more Milky Wa...

The Tomb That Inspired Britain's Iconic Telephone Box

Feb 1, 2019

The United Kingdom Post Office introduced the first public telephone kiosk, designated K1, in 1921. These were constructed out of pre-cast c...

Juhyo, The Snow Monsters of Mount Zao

Feb 1, 2019

High against the slopes of Mount Zaō, in central Japan, the cold, moisture-laden winds from Siberia slams into creating a natural wonder tha...

RMS Tayleur: The Other Titanic

Jan 31, 2019

The sinking of the Titanic is one of the best remembered maritime disasters in history. A grand luxury ship touted as the safest vessel aflo...

Bookwheel, The 16th Century Forerunner to The eBook Reader

Jan 30, 2019

For many of us, the ebook reader was the next best thing to happen since Gutenberg’s printing press. The printing press made books widely av...