The Ni'ihau Incident

May 28, 2021

Ni'ihau is the smallest of the inhabited islands in the Hawaiian archipelago, privately owned since the 19th century and which would hav...

The Richest Ancient Shipwreck

May 26, 2021

In 1975, a fishing boat working in the southwestern sea of Korean peninsula, near the Shinan Islands, caught six pieces of Chinese ceramic w...

The Air Conditioned Village

May 26, 2021

Air conditioning is ubiquitous these days, but not too long ago cool air was considered a luxury available only in commercial businesses. Th...

Mr. Bean’s Failed Assassination Attempt of The Queen

May 25, 2021

The closest Mr. Bean came to killing the Queen was when he headbutted the head of the British Royal family. The Queen was hurt but survived...

Why Apollo Astronauts Lobbed Grenades on The Moon

May 24, 2021

The Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s provided scientists with an exciting playground upon which to conduct experiments never performed i...

Canal of the Pharaohs: The Forerunner to The Suez Canal

May 21, 2021

The Suez Canal may be a marvel of modern engineering, but there is nothing modern about digging canals. Navigable waterways have been dug si...

Goodyear’s Illuminated Tires

May 20, 2021

In the late 1930s, a German chemist named Otto Bayer synthesized a new organic polymer called polyurethane. Over the decades polyurethane fo...

Brennan’s Gyro Monorail

May 19, 2021

In the early 20th century, at least two different engineers working independently in different parts of the world, put forward a unique conc...

What Happened to Napoleon’s Penis?

May 18, 2021

The diminutive French military leader Napoléon Bonaparte lies buried in a crypt under the dome at Les Invalides, in Paris, sans many vital b...

The Underwater Mine of Silver Islet

May 17, 2021

The small rocky reef at the tip of the Sibley Peninsula in northwestern Ontario, Canada, is rich in silver, but mining this precious metal i...