I remember when I first saw one of Frank Herfort’s photographs and thought it looked like a movie still from some iconic film that I’d somehow never seen...

“Fly still, I’m about to land.”

A blind woman describes how she learnt she had one of the world’s most intriguing senses.

Most of us don’t really understand how mirrors work, which makes for some fun reflective deception. By Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik.

The artwork, said U.K. tabloids of the time, was haunted. By Natalie Zarrelli.

People who think science is dull are wrong. Here are 10 reasons why. By Tom Chivers (Nov. 12, 2009)

Stains, smells, secrets, thieves, dead bodies, and even a radioactive towel have all found their way down one. By Sarah Minor.

Be amazed by our list of most incredible coincidences.

Famous fossil hunter E. D. Cope got into a fistfight over a matter of tarnished honor. By Brian Switek.

Quit playing games with my hearth. By Eric Grundhauser.

Time has just posted a mini-site about the 100 most influential photographs of the world, accompanied by their history. The selection is very relevant, the images are fantastic and varied, there is nothing to add. So I decided to present here 100 photographs that had absolutely no influence on anything. Existence, thankfully, their only merit.

The skeleton of a giant woman found in a medieval Polish cemetery was buried in a mysterious way and showed signs of treatment as special rather than shunned. By Paul Seaburn. (Nov. 16, 2016)

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge” – Abraham Joshua Heschel.

There were many things that set the KLF apart from other musical acts who enjoyed commercial success in the UK’s thriving dance scene of the early 1990s. By Chris McCall.

In a cemetery in Huelva, in Spain, is the grave of Major William Martin, of the British Royal Marines. Or rather, it's the grave of a man called Glyndwr Michael, who served his country during World War 2 in a very unexpected way... after his death.

In 1872, Victoria Woodhull was the first woman candidate for president of the United States. She was a former prostitute with a former slave—Frederick Douglass—as her running mate. Oh, and Woodhull was also a clairvoyant, By Jessa Crispin.

Charles Waterton was a pioneer of conservation. He was also extremely nutty, in ways that suggest he may have over-identified with his animal subjects. By Christine Ro.

Hummingbird, slightly heavier than a penny, arrived at Quarryville backyard feeder last fall, flew cross-country, and returned to same spot this month. By Ad Crable.

The mysterious silky substance is the source of much speculation. By Naomi Russo.

These deeply entertaining lists of superstitions, gathered by Fletcher Bascom Dressler in 1907, are a good sample of the kinds of sayings American college students from across the country heard in their homes in the late-19th and early-20th centuries... By Rebecca Onion.