Usually the oldest ground in the village, and it keeps records. Here are seventeen.
1. The Ground Is Higher Than the Street
Centuries of burial add material rather than remove…
Maya Linton
Mostly about air, not water. Here are fifteen.
1. The Bend Is Holding Water on Purpose
Every fixture has a trap, a dip in the pipe that retains water after…
The everyday language is wrong in a way that hides something interesting. People say hair turns grey, goes grey, is going grey, as though the strands on a head are…
The appendix is the standard example of a vestigial organ, wheeled out in every discussion of evolutionary leftovers alongside wisdom teeth and the tailbone. It is a worm-shaped tube a…
Thunder is usually described as the noise lightning makes, which suggests the bolt itself is loud in the way a bell or an engine is loud. It is not. Lightning…
Watch the top of an escalator for a few seconds and something slightly impossible happens. A flat plate slides out from under a comb, then rises into a step, then…