Cool Finds
A British Jail Is Paying Artistic Tribute to Oscar Wilde, its Most Famous Inmate
Patti Smith, Ai Weiwei and others envision what it's like to be <i>Inside</i>
Record-Breaking Lightning Strikes Force Redefinition of the Thunderbolt
A 199.5-mile-long streak captured the title for world's longest and a 7.74-second blast won world's brightest
Amateur Archaeologist Discovers Significant Amount of Scotland's Ancient Rock Art
Musician and avid walker George Currie has catalogued 670 pieces of prehistoric rock art in the Highlands
Augmented Reality Art Imagines What Could Be Seattle’s Weird, Bleak Future
Artist envisions mutant flowers and drone-like seaweed that may one day take over a post-climate change Seattle
Visit the Manuscript of 'Jane Eyre' in New York
The handwritten novel is in the United States for the first time—along with an exhibition of artifacts from Charlotte Brontë’s brief and brilliant life
You Could Own F. Scott Fitzgerald’s House
Live in the Victorian rowhouse where a career was born
The Oldest Lighthouse in the United States Just Celebrated 300 Years of Service
The Boston Light still welcomes sailors to Boston Harbor
Archaeologists Find Ancient Pot With Traces of 3,000-Year-Old Burnt Cheese
This ancient mishap gives researchers a peek into Bronze Age life
Saplings From the 9/11 Survivor Tree Are Headed to Paris, San Bernardino and Orlando
The tree is a powerful symbol of resilience and life, even in the most tragic circumstances
The U.S. Government Is Suing for a Set of Lighthouse Lenses
The lenses could be worth up to $600,000
Watch a 10-Ton Ice Cube Melt on a Seattle Square
It’s a different kind of block party
Four Finds from University of Kansas' Collection of Radical Zines
The university's Solidarity! Radical Library boasts a collection of almost 1,000 alternative papers
The New York Public Library’s Radical Zine Collection Is Now on Display
Check out pamphlets from people like Noam Chomsky and Mumia Abu-Jamal
What Will the Memorials of the Future Look Like?
From underwater trees to mechanical parrots, the memorials of tomorrow don’t look much like the ones that exist today
Curators Are One Piece Closer to Solving the Mystery of Magritte’s Missing Painting
<i>The Enchanted Pose</i> is coming back from the dead—one painted-over quarter at a time
These Early Infographics Illustrated the Plight of America’s Poor
Florence Kelley used hard numbers to effect change
Thousands of Toilets Submerged in NY Harbor Go From Bathroom Throne to Oyster Home
It’s much too soon to eat them, though
These Stunning Images Capture the Unseen Beauty of Booze
Drink to the magic of polarized light microscopy
This Digital Collection of Babe Ruth’s Scrapbooks Is a Piece of Home Run History
The Baseball Hall of Fame is sharing its collection with the internet
Watch OSIRIS-REx Head to the Cosmos to Grab a Scoop of Asteroid Dust
Today, NASA will launch the spacecraft which will travel to the nearby asteroid Bennu
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