Argonaut’s Detachable Penis

The Argonaut, or Paper Nautilus, is a small octopus found in the open-ocean. Like many octopi, the male…

Three Inch Golden Lotus

Behind the practice of foot binding

warning: explicit erotica

Footbinding was the longest lasting and most widespread sexual fetish in history. It lasted for a thousand years (dying out early 20th century). It…

King Njoya’s beautiful Shü-mom pictographs

The Bamum script of Cameroon was devised at the end of the 19th century following a dream in which the Bamum King Njoya was inspired to provide a writing system for his people by creating a series of pictographs. The script was something of a communal…

Exhibisionism or Art?

Vaginal art of Milo Moiré

Theseus, the magnetic mouse

A life-sized magnetic mouse learns its way around a maze; machine learning, circa 1950's

In this beautiful demonstration of early machine learning by Claude Shannon, the father of Information…

How to pack slaves

This formation was known as “loose pack” as the slaves were lying on their backs. The alternative, “tight pack”, which had…

Kefler-186f

First validated ‘Earth-like’ planet

Is Lord Monckton actually Sacha Baron Cohen?

Such a classic interview:

The Silver River

The Chinese name for the Milky Way