How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics
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How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics
Science and engineering may be conflated to some degree in the public mind, but anyone...
What Did the Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Sound Like? Oxford Scholars Recreate Them
Welcome to The Garden of Earthly Delights. You’ll find no angelic strings here. Those are...
What Did the Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Sound Like? Oxford Scholars Recreate Them
Welcome to The Garden of Earthly Delights. You’ll find no angelic strings here. Those are...
The Ingenious Engineering of Silk: How the 2,000-Year-Old Pattern Loom Powered the Silk Road and the Wealth of Ancient China
The Silk Road’s long period of high activity spanned the second century BC and the...
Hear Aldous Huxley Read Brave New World. Plus 84 Classic Radio Dramas from CBS Radio Workshop (1956–57)
We seem to be living through yet another major moment for podcasting. Over the past...
How to Carve Hieroglyphs Just Like the Ancient Egyptians Did
In ancient Egypt, writing hieroglyphs was a highly specialized skill, one commanded by only a...
How to Make Coffee in the Bialetti Moka Pot: The “Ultimate Techique”
In Italy, roughly 70% of households have a Bialetti Moka Pot. And chances are you...
An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published
Imagine you could talk to Hieronymus Bosch, the authors of the Book of Revelation, or...
Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
Here’s another thing you can credit Thomas Jefferson with: being the first known American to...