Browsing: History

new video loaded: Nikole Hannah-Jones Knows Why History Feels DangerousThe creator of The 1619 Project joins Wesley Morris to talk about her work and the political…

It’s Black History Month in the UK, and it feels like it’s time for a rethink. Over the years, an event that started out as a…

Fossilisation is rare. Most living things disappear without trace, recycled back into planet Earth.But in some environments the DNA from living things binds to the soil…

Friedrich Engels stands accused of exaggerating, or perhaps taking “creative liberties”, with just how segregated Manchester was in the mid-19th century, a study has found.The great…

ARLINGTON, Texas — When Dallas Cowboys All-Pro kicker Brandon Aubrey drained a 64-yard field goal to send Dallas to overtime in an eventual 40-37 overtime victory…

When the NFL, Roc Nation, and Apple Music announced that Bad Bunny would be the 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer, the noise started almost immediately. On…

October 14, 20253 min readNovember 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years AgoCurveballs; poison wallpaperBy Mark Fischetti 1975, Pupil Perception: “Photographs of two women…

Around 1919, the British mathematician G. H. Hardy hopped on a London cab on his way to visit his Indian colleague Srinivasa Ramanujan.The cab’s licence number,…

Earlier today I set these three puzzles, loosely based around 1729, the “taxicab number”. To read about the link between London cabs and 1729 please read…

On a brisk February evening in 2006, around a hundred people gathered in the venerable Koreatown watering hole HMS Bounty to pay their last respects to…