by | Aug 7, 2021 | Weirdness
from National Geographic Rare chunks of Earth’s mantle found exposed in Maryland The set of rocks strewn throughout Baltimore likely represent a slice of prehistoric seafloor from a now-vanished ocean. BY MAYA WEI-HAAS Katie Armstrong, NG Staff. Sources:...
by | Aug 6, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Nautilus What Misspellings Reveal About Cultural Evolution BY HELENA MITON Illustration by VectorMine / Shutterstock Something about me must remind people of a blind 17th-century poet. My last name, Miton, is French, yet people outside of France invariably...
by | Aug 5, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from InsideHook The Musicians With the Biggest (And Smallest) Vocabularies A new study determined which artists use the most unique words in their songs BY BONNIE STIERNBERG We all know that when it comes to song lyrics, some artists are more verbose than others. Some...
by | Aug 4, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from AP Fire destroys cabin of New Hampshire man forced out of woods By KATHY McCORMACK Jodie Gedeon via AP CANTERBURY, N.H. (AP) — For almost three decades, 81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin...
by | Aug 3, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from UnHerd How artists lost their courage Keeping silent is the price of a successful career BY JESS DE WAHLS In 2013, Grayson Perry became the first crossdresser to give the BBC’s annual Reith Lectures. I loved them. Wearing his usual colourful attire,...
