Articles by Eric Grundhauser

Until last month, nobody was much interested.

If you've ever lived off ramen, you can thank the global organization that keeps it coming.

It could be the priciest such auction of all time in India.

After kickstarting human aviation, the Glider King died as he lived: trying to fly.

The fishermen claim ignorance, but selling shark meat can be lucrative.

Whoa man. Is this poster glowing? Wait. Is that a centaur?

A world-beating pinball player attempts to make me a master of the game.

Geography nuts have located the hardest place to get to on every continent and beyond.

Nothing says "presidential" like a stately hunk of wood polished to a gleam.

They're like regular buildings, but with a twist.

Liability policies are making adventuring safer and helping players defeat red tape.

The greatest showman on Earth had a less-than-great run of disasters.

These austere churches mix Nordic dragons with Christian saints.

This ill-fated CD console produced some amazingly off-brand Nintendo games.

Marm Mandelbaum, the Queen of Fences, turned street rats into professional criminals.

How equine members of the film industry prepare for on-camera roles.

Getting rid of giant ships is a hazardous operation.

Garbage trucks have evolved from glorified dump trucks to sophisticated engines of trash transport.

Hexxus, Captain Pollution, and the heyday of animated eco-villains.

Invisibility creeps closer to becoming a reality but we still don't know how to see out of it.

Despite all technological advances that allow real-time play, correspondence chess is still going strong.

In the 1980s Atari offered golden treasures as gaming prizes, most of which were lost to time. Until now.

From Mazes and Monsters to Dark Dungeons, D&D was a lot scarier in the 1980s.

When on the run from Protestants in the 16th century, Catholic clergy hid in custom-built "priest holes."