geology
Found: Hundreds of Minerals That Only Exist Because of Humans
Minerals are supposed to be "naturally occurring."
Articles by Sarah Laskow
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Stories
Stories shared by this traveler.
espionage
The Tragedy of Newcomb Mott, Who Thought He Could Walk Into Soviet Russia
Young and naive, he just wanted his passport stamped.
aliens
Found: Fossil Evidence of the Oldest Life on Earth
It is 3.7 BILLION years old.
islands
Found: 47 Lumps of Orichalcum, an Ancient Alloy Attributed to Atlantis
Orichalcum!
libraries
Uncovering the Hidden Books Tucked Inside Every Single Library
There's no standard way to catalog anonymous texts, which makes them incredibly hard to find.
news
Metal Detector Hobbyists Find Gold in a Field They Got Bored of 20 Years Earlier
The four pieces of jewelry date back to the Iron Age.
maps
Humans Are Responsible for 84 Percent of Wildfires in the U.S.
Only in the mountainous west was lightning a more common cause, a new paper reports.
rites and rituals
Found: Mysterious, Maze-Like Neolithic Fences
They enclosed a huge area, but for what purpose?
computers
Found: Internal Apple Computer Memos From 1979, Left at a Seattle Goodwill
A local discovered them by chance.
signs
Australian Settlers Used Magic Signs to Keep Evil Away
New efforts to collect evil-averting marks show they were used well into the 19th century.
restaurants
Found: A Stray Chicken in a McDonald's Bathroom
A 5-year-old made the discovery.
drugs
In 1914, Feminists Fought for the Right to Forget Childbirth
They had associations and rallies advocating for "twilight sleep."
sacred spaces
Found: The Location of London’s Oldest Mosque
It opened in 1895.
churches
Listen to the Call to Prayer in Countries Around the World
A new project collects sounds from sacred places in 34 countries.
graffiti
Found: Strange Graffiti on 4 of Washington's Most Famous Monuments
It referenced the JFK assassination and the 9/11 attacks.
animals
There's Another Orange Alligator Roaming the Carolinas
North Carolina would not be outdone.
news
Found: Love Letters a WWII Soldier Wrote to His Boyfriend
Homosexuality was illegal at the time.
malls
The Mall of America Is Looking for a Writer-in-Residence
Must be willing to deeply immerse in the Mall's atmosphere.
caves
Found: 50,000-Year-Old Microbes Hiding in the Cave of the Crystals
They are a kind of "super life."
food
I Heart New York
My quest to buy (and eat) as many different hearts as I could in a single day in the city.
geology
Found: A Possible Eighth Continent
Zealandia!
film
Found: A Glimpse of Marcel Proust, Caught on Film
This is the first known footage of the famous author.
aliens
Found: An Essay Winston Churchill Wrote About Alien Life
"Are we alone in the universe?" he asked.
politics
The True Origins of the Phrase 'Bleeding-Heart Liberal'
Thank Westbrook Pegler, Joe McCarthy, and Ronald Reagan.
