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Why there are no new artists in the gallery.

Stanley Clifford Weyman lived many, many lives.

No one seems to know how we got this nickname for people from Indiana.

The musician performs with shimmery beings of a species not quite our own.

In the summer of 1955, the friendly Opo charmed beachgoers with tricks and devotion.

She used mine shafts as a beer fridge and shot bears to get lard for pie crusts.

Brookhaven National Laboratory's Paul O'Connor explains the mind-boggling promise of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.

John Jerit of American Paper Optics is very into the visionary.

In the late 1800s, the Sutherland women earned millions by marketing a hair-growth tonic.

The actual building. Sometimes across water.

And looking far across the universe.

There's great comfort in being covered.

An untranslatable word used among the few members of the Yaghan tribe has attained an odd sort of online fame.

The Woomera complex is the world's largest military land base. Perfect place for a cattle ranch.

After being imprisoned for a reading-related prank, the couple never recovered.

It is hard to predict an eclipse when you think the world is flat.

And why you might never have heard of Ira Aldridge.

A new project is collecting recordings of public activism going back to 1991.