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Sarah Laskow

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Lew getting close to a Chinook salmon head.

food

Meet the Man Who Wants to Make Eating Shad a Fad Again

Canned and smoked, the bony fish is delicious, says Seattle's Warner Lew.

By Sarah Laskow
Looks awfully nice for a 5th century sculpture that's been underwater?

bridges

Found: A Giant Terra-Cotta Head

A controversial Russian bridge-building project uncovered this sculpture.

By Sarah Laskow
The White House

film

Found: The Earliest Color Footage of the White House

It features Herbert Hoover playing with a six-pound medicine ball.

By Sarah Laskow
The die, before it was taken away.

floods

Found: A Giant Metal Die in an Idaho Lake

Floodwaters cast it on the shore.

By Sarah Laskow
A border marker in Germany.

maps

The Case for Making European Boundary Stones Into a World Heritage Site

Could surveying be recognized as one of the world's wonders?

By Sarah Laskow
Bats in their bat cave.

animals

Found: An Unusually Situated Bat Cave

The cave is large for Alberta's boreal forest.

By Sarah Laskow
Close-up of 2.7 billion years old continental crust from Nunavik, northern Quebec.

geology

Found: Rocks Formed From Earth’s Earliest Crust

Life on Earth is tough, even for rocks.

By Sarah Laskow
A Magdalene asylum in the early 20th century.

sex

The Invisible Unmarried Mothers of Ireland

For seven decades, thousands of pregnant Irish women were sent into a kind of captivity.

By Sarah Laskow
Found: Golden Coins Hidden in a Crusader Shipwreck

shipwrecks

Found: Golden Coins Hidden in a Crusader Shipwreck

The ship may have been fleeing the Holy Land after the Crusaders' last stand.

By Sarah Laskow
A lady of Storyville, New Orleans.

politics

Most American Cities Once Had Red-Light Districts

But they didn't last long.

By Sarah Laskow
Very very old plants.

geology

Found: The Oldest Plant Fossil Ever Discovered

It looks like red algae.

By Sarah Laskow
A fluorescing frog.

animals

Found: The World's First Known Fluorescent Frog

It is tiny and polka-dotted!

By Sarah Laskow
The envelope of the Morey letter.

politics

The Enduring Mystery of James A. Garfield's Immigration Scandal

Instead of emails, there was the Morey letter.

By Sarah Laskow
A great white in South Africa.

sharks

Found: An Increasing Number of Great White Sharks Off Cape Cod

"The population may be large," one expert said.

By Sarah Laskow
Handcrafted marbled endpapers of a book manually bound in France around 1880.

art

The Unsung Delight of a Well-Designed Endpaper

They're an art form all their own.

By Sarah Laskow
Head of the bust, pulled from the area of King Ramses II's temple, at the ancient site of Heliopolis.

temples

Found: A Colossal Statue of Ramses II Hiding Under a Cairo Street

Egypt's antiquities ministry is calling it one of the most important archaeological finds ever.

By Sarah Laskow
The diamond time crystal.

computers

Found: Time Crystals, a New Phase of Matter

Pretty pretty cool.

By Sarah Laskow
The supracrustal belt in Québec.

science

The 4 Places on Earth to Look for the Earliest Evidence of Life

It's hard to find rocks more than 3.6 billion years old.

By Sarah Laskow
Found, By a Danish Schoolboy: A Crashed WWII Plane in His Family's Field

airplanes

Found, By a Danish Schoolboy: A Crashed WWII Plane in His Family's Field

As a joke, his father had suggested he look for it.

By Sarah Laskow
Found: A Treasure Trove of Candy Wrappers Dating Back to the Depression

food

Found: A Treasure Trove of Candy Wrappers Dating Back to the Depression

They were hidden in a circulation chamber in an old Chicago theater.

By Sarah Laskow
"The Fight Between Carnival and Lent," 1559, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

hidden

The Original Hidden Picture Artists Were Dutch Masters

Finding Beyoncé is fun, but so are the minds of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymous Bosch.

By Sarah Laskow
Found: A Turtle With 915 Coins in Its Belly

animals

Found: A Turtle With 915 Coins in Its Belly

His name means "piggy bank."

By Sarah Laskow
Le vere imagini et descritioni delle piv nobilli citta del mondo, pl. 28

art

The Scandalous Flap Books of 16th-Century Venice

Cheeky pages revealed more than their drawings initially let on.

By Sarah Laskow
The cookbook.

food

Found: Recipes From 1793 for Calves' Heads and Pigs' Feet

A Georgian cookbook was hiding in an abbey's private library.

By Sarah Laskow
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