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The Wicked Bible of 1631 left 'not' out of 'thou shalt not commit adultery.' About 25 copies survive today.

Spontaneous human combustion is pseudoscience; the real cause is the wick effect, where body fat feeds a slow fire.

IP over Avian Carriers is a real 1990 internet standard for sending data by homing pigeon, with 55% packet loss.

Solvej Balle's incredible story of a woman trapped in time continues in Book II of On the Calculation of Volume.

Verba Prima is an archive of thousands of first sentences from notable literary works, browsable one line at a time.

Atlassian, Adobe, and Amazon are throttling AI use as costs spiral, one firm's bill hitting $15 million a month.

PocketMage is a crowdfunded PDA with a tactile keyboard and e-paper display, running a custom open-source OS on ...

A federal judge in Florida dismissed with prejudice a copyright lawsuit brought against Taylor Swift by self-published poet Kimberly Marasco, ruling (not for the first time!) that the material Marasco ...

Transient lunar phenomena, brief lights and glows on the Moon, have been reported for over 1,000 years.

The 1452/1453 mystery eruption blasted 11 megatons of sulfur skyward, a third of Tambora, from an unknown volcano.