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Here’s How Researchers Determined a Long-Lost Van Gogh Painting Is an Original
Image: Van Gogh Museum The first newly discovered Vincent Van Gogh painting since 1928, “Sunset at Montmajour,” spent years collecting dust in a Norwegian attic. Experts assumed that the large canvas...
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INTERPOL Is After “the Snake,” a Notorious Illegal Fishing Vessel
The ocean’s most wanted: The Snake. Photo: INTERPOL A rogue fishing vessel called “the Snake” is on the loose in the South Atlantic, scooping up illegal hauls of fish. It’s also inspired INTERPOL to...
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This Map Is a Crash Course in European History, 1 A.D. to Today
The most recent millennium of European political history was wrought with war and conquest. Borders shifted; empires rose and fell. In the video above we see Europe’s evolution from 1000 A.D. to the...
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Liechtenstein Has the Most Skewed Ratio of Baby Boys And Girls in the World...
Image: David Herholz In far too many parts of the world, parents make sure that their girl children are never born or, if they are, don’t survive long: The Population Reference Bureau estimates that...
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Google Earth Is Lending a Hand with Land Mine Clearing in Kosovo
Photo: The HALO Trust The fighting in Kosovo ended more than 10 years ago, but unexploded land mines still pepper the country. “The international conflict over Kosovo is also notable for the fact that,...
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Bats Act As Pest Control at Two Old Portuguese Libraries
The University of Coimbra’s grand old Biblioteca Joanina houses both books and bats. Photo: tacoekkel For their new book, The Library: A World History, architectural historian James Campbell and...
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France Bans Child Beauty Pageants, America Unlikely to Follow
Image: Glitter Girls Pageants A few days ago, France banned child beauty pageants, saying that they send the wrong message to little girls. Child beauty pageants aren’t nearly as popular in France as...
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China Claims to Have Bought a Huge Chunk of Ukraine
Photo: Peter Fend’a Yesterday, China announced that Ukraine will soon become its largest overseas farm—but the agricultural group that’s supposed to be selling off the land says that’s not exactly the...
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Archaeologists Looking for a Sultan’s Buried Heart Found a Whole Town Instead
Photo: Titian Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent’s heart was not buried with his body. His body, as AnslaMed explains, went back to Constantinople, to be laid to rest beside his favorite wife, a...
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Ancient Women Artists May Be Responsible for Most Cave Art
Photo: Xipe Totec39 Since cave art often depicts game species, a subject near and dear to hunters, most researchers have assumed that the people behind this mysterious artwork must have been male. But...
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Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails?
Photo: The Queen Mary Psalter, c 1310-1320 via British Library It’s common to find, in the blank spaces of 13th and 14th century English texts, sketches and notes from medieval readers. And scattered...
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This New Burial Technique Turns a Corpse Into a Tiny Pile of Freeze-Dried...
Photo: Daniel Foster Even the most environmentally friendly burials have drawbacks. Ground burial takes up precious real estate. Cremation endangers crematoria workers who can breathe in poisonous...
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Some Seemingly Harmless Snakes Possess a Secret Venom Gland
Don’t mess with the green whip snake. Photo: Jean-Jacques Milan Usually, we think of snakes as falling into one of two groups—venomous and nonvenomous. But to the surprise of herpetologists, a new...
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Three Drones Mapped the Matterhorn in Six Hours
Image: Camptocamp.org The Matterhorn is an imposing mountain, reaching 14,960 feet into the air, amidst the Pennine Alps. It’s one of the highest peaks in the Alps and claimed the lives of 500 men...
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Archimedes Would Be Proud of This Now-Bright Norwegian Town
Photo: Karl Martin Jakobsen Scandinavia’s winters are long, dark affairs. In order to brighten things up a bit, Rjukan, a valley town in Norway, installed three 550-square-foot mirrors to focus...
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Read Seamus Heaney’s Last Known, Previously Unpublished Poem
Photo: Martin Kalfatovic The Guardian just published what is thought to be the last poem penned by Seamus Heaney, the Nobel-winning Irish poet who passed away in August. Two months before he died,...
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This Movie Has Been Rated S for Sexist
Photo: Flickr user Saire Elizabeth Hollywood isn’t exactly know for treating women well, but lately they’ve been doing even worse. As SmartNews has written, female representation in film isn’t doing so...
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Big-Breasted Mannequins Take a Craze for Plastic Surgery to Its Logical...
Photo: Thomas Edwards In Venezuela, female beauty has come to be defined, in recent years, by plastic surgery enhancements—large busts and shapely butts in “often extreme proportions,” says the New...
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Kraft’s New Natural Cheese Dyes Were the Key Ingredient in a 17th Century Scam
Photo: Ricky Romero Kraft’s macaroni and cheese, the one with the bright orange powdered cheese, is getting an overhaul. The company is shedding the two artificial dyes it uses to give the cheese its...
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A Trove of Art, Recovered Decades After Nazis Stole It, Is Going On Virtual...
Franz Marc’s Horses in a Landscape was one of the recovered pieces of art. Photo: WikiPaintaings Last week Germany’s Focus magazine broke the news that a trove of art, looted by people working for the...
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