medicine
Orificial Surgery Was a Gruesome 19th-Century Sham Medicine
Phrenology (and surgery) below the belt.
Articles by Natasha Frost
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Stories
Stories shared by this traveler.
news
See an Entire Northern Ireland Village Knitted Out of Wool
An incredible yarn from Cloughmills, County Antrim.
news
France's Ongoing Quest to Crush English Loanwords
Saying "adieu" to "le smartphone."
science
An Amazing Fossilized Eye Reveals How an Ancient Bird Saw
Feast your eyes on this.
animals
The Curbside Gyms That Keep Rare New Zealand Parrots Out of Trouble
What is it with teenage males and traffic cones?
games
The Impossible Task of Reconstructing the Rules to an Ancient Board Game
How would you figure out Monopoly with no instructions and half the pieces missing?
news
Enormous Lily Pads Have Returned to Paraguay
The queen of waterlilies is back.
maps
A Vast, 430-Year-Old World Map, Full of Places and Creatures, Real and Imagined
More than 60 square feet of cartographic wonder.
science
The Shark That Thrives on a Flexitarian Diet
For the bonnethead shark, fish can be friends, not food.
animals
The Struggle to Revitalize the World's Vulture Populations
How to save the least marketable of all birds.
unesco
How Kiddie Pools of Kimchi Bind Korean Families Together
The practice of "kimjang" is about more than fermenting napa cabbage.
farms
Wild Boars Are Putting One of France's Smelliest Cheeses at Risk
The monsters menacing Muenster.
news
An Unfinished, 511-Foot Skyscraper Is Being Auctioned Off Online
The answer to the $84 million burning a hole in your pocket.
news
Belgium's Telegram Service Stops for Good, Stop
It's the end of a telegraphic era.
food
Perhaps You'd Like to Try Lemon or Raspberry Flavored Oysters
After years of testing, a French gastronaut is offering everyone's favorite happy hour mollusks in a rainbow of flavors.
found
The Luckiest People of 2017
Wins and windfalls of all different varieties.
farms
2017 Was Full of Problems, Here Are Some That Got Solved
Athletic hijabs, cancer cures, magic glasses, and more.
disney
In Sweden, There Is No Christmas Without Donald Duck
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
science
Found: A Tiny, Terrifying Sea Monster From 500 Million Years Ago
Small, but fierce and well-armed.
music
Listen to the First Computer-Generated Christmas Carols, From Alan Turing's Lab
"Jingle Bells" and "Good King Wenceslas" haven't sounded like this in a long time.
food
The University of Chicago’s Seven-Decade-Running Jewish Food Debate
An unwinnable fight between latkes and hamantashen.
gardens
If You Had to Have a Scandal in 2017, Why Not Make It a Charming One?
The highlights of the lowlights.
history
The Manuscript of '120 Days of Sodom' Has Been Declared a National Treasure
A nation embraces the Marquis de Sade's controversial masterpiece.
archaeology
In Indonesian Caves, a Treasure Trove of Forgotten Ancient Paintings
The images show dynamic scenes of dogs and drums.
