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visions of the invisible

Have you ever seen an atom? Neither have I, or anyone for that matter. So how did we come to understand them?

so you want to be a roman emperor?

So you want to be a roman emperor? Learn from the best … or worst.

anne lister’s diaries

In the early 19th century a woman named Anne Lister wrote in her diary. Like a lot of people have done for hundreds of years. But why was Anne writing parts of it in a secret code?

a few (million) years later

Steve Brusatte wrote in his (great) book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs “The realisation that birds are dinosaurs is probably the single most important fact ever discovered by dinosaur palaeontologists.”

nebraska

Every song tells a story. In the case of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, it’s dark and haunting one.