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Sniff, sniff…

Stumped by what to give your egomaniac boyfriend on his birthday? Consider Sean John’s (Sean Combs, a.k.a. P. Diddy) “I Am King” cologne, bursting with notes of sandalwood, orange and...

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The Annals of Epistemology, Vol. 13: Oops…

Dr. John Ioannidis Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation...

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“a culinary equivalent of the ship in a bottle”…

The dedicated researchers at our old friends Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have come through again:  this time, with step-by-step instructions for making omelettes inside of eggshells.  “While it...

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Say when…

Introducing When the What?– “It’s Timeline Time!” More (and larger) hand-drawn histories at When the What?  [TotH to Brain Pickings] As we get our stories straight, we might wish an isolationist Happy...

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Fitness for the rest of us…

“All you need is a chair and two paper plates…” [TotH to Everlasting Blort] As we commit ourselves to continuous improvement, we might recall that it was on this date in 1878 that C.A. Parker...

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Preparing a meal that C.P. Snow would have enjoyed…

   source John Lanchester writes: When Ferran Adrià, the Spanish maestro who is undisputedly the most influential chef of the last two decades, gave up cooking at his restaurant El Bulli, he announced...

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“Nothing is invented, for it’s written in nature first…”*

  Norwegian nature photographer Kjell Bloch Sandved has devoted his photographic career to capturing the beauty of the world we live in and along the way, amassed a collection of butterfly and moth...

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“Is a Hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool Opotamus?”*…

  Dutch artist Florentjin Hofman, known for his massive sculptures (including his giant rubber duck), has floated a giant hippo, “HippopoThames,” down London’s iconic river. Follow it’s progress past...

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“The imaginary is what tends to become real”*…

  Tik-Tok of Oz, L. Frank Baum, Chicago, 1914.   Courtesy, Houghton Library, Harvard University Maps enjoy a long tradition as a mode of literary illustration, orienting readers to worlds real and...

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“Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying”…

  Left: “Pheon Waltz Song” with Herrmann dancing on the cover, 1896. (Photo courtesy of New York Public Library). Right: Poster of Herrmann and Company, around 1905. (Photo courtesy of McCord Museum)...

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“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes”*…

This artist rendering provided by the European South Observatory shows some of the 32 new planets astronomers found outside our solar system … That said, some facts may morph out from under us. In...

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“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to...

Working with her scientist husband, Orra Hitchcock produced illustrations on bolts of linen that manifest original knowledge about extinction, stratigraphy, and their evidentiary features in the...

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