MARIE ANTOINETTE had a thing for pinecones. I can’t blame her. Some girls like shoes. Others unicorns. I actually know very little about Marie Antoinette. But that’s probably because I’m a guy. And also, because there’s nothing quite like a finely preserved vase from...
YOU WERE TOLD that the city of Chicago once held the World’s Colombian Exposition to publicly celebrate Columbus discovering America. The year was 1893, and the Great Economic Panic was already underway. Some 27-million people, a number equal to half of the entire...
ARE DINOSAUR fossils a hoax? I really wish I could tell you they weren’t. I wish more than anything that I could keep pounding my head over the keyboard, screaming from my fingertips at the dinosaur deniers: IF DINOSAURS DON’T EXIST, THEN WHAT ARE THEY DIGGING UP!?...
THERE are no forests on the moon. Not even trees are a thing. You'd think everybody would agree—but no. So far, only the Dutch Government has come to this conclusion. There may be others, but it is the Dutch who had their very own moon rock tested. The results...
HEAVEN IS a junk yard where satellites are cartoons. There's something like 13,000 satellites in the Earth's orbit. This according to Google Earth. Popular Science adds, Earth's orbit is crowded with tons of debris "whirling around at dangerously high speeds, as the...