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Beatrix Potter, despite the efforts of Graham Greene and many others, is still tarred with a certain National Trust tweeness, even thou...

Here's the Wiki: The cloche hat is a fitted, bell-shaped hat that was popular during the 1920s. (Cloche is the French word for bell.) C...

  Everyone who watched the Belmont 40 years ago will never forget Secretariat's race that day.  He had already won the Kentucky Derby ...

"By Friday, however, the macro narratives were entirely overshadowed by the excitement of the SpaceX IPO. It’s an IPO that will go down...

This hand-coloured scanning electron micrograph was the favourite of the jury in the section "Best Scientific Image". The imag...

"A space in Mankato that promotes reflection and healing for families who have lost a child has been vandalized , according to the nonp...

This is the sentence that piqued my curiosity: "Haptic researchers discovered a difference of two orders of magnitude in the elasticity...

I have been away from Sudoku for a year or two, but got lured back when this variant was posted by Kottke this morning. In this variant the...

Excerpt from an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education : " Six weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a...

Last evening while trying to avoid doomscrolling I browsed some movies recorded on my DVR.  I noticed that the dialogue in  The Maltese Falc...

When I read books I use white paper bookmarks so that I can jot down new words to look up. or pithy statements or clever insights worth quot...

I don't have access to saltwater tidepools, so in my world the most fascinating microenvironment is that of a freshwater pond.  I was th...

As an elderly person I applaud the presence of the armrests, but as a housekeeper I'm dismayed by the prospect of cleaning it. Found at ...

Fahd Abu Haikal shows a photo of his seven-month- old son, Sam, who was killed on Friday when Israeli soldiers fired at their car. Photograp...