Thing Finder

A few years ago there was book published,  The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700 - 2100 by William Fogel.  It quantified the calo...

A dinner party at the Hotel Astor. New York City, 1904. https://t.co/SN8ghBG1gr pic.twitter.com/W4JQEdei2p — Laocoon of Troy (@LaocoonofTro...

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. — Geor...

Spectacular mass of juvenile striped eel catfish appearing like one giant animal, A daunting sight for predators, in this undulating dense e...

Man records the last 10 seconds of his life. R.I.P. pic.twitter.com/AOjkFrMJfr — Steve Inman (@SteveInmanUIC) December 22, 2022  

There is a growing awareness that the mental health problems of Gen Z were caused by 2 interacting factors: loss of childhood independence, ...

Bluebird Books by Mitchell Toy  Click to enlarge.

From Swedish birthrate data: November update by el gato malo.  The subheading is Rates remain severely depressed and the associations on ca...

From Unnatural Causes by P.D. James.  Having just reread it, I am freshly impressed by the precision of her language and the nuance of her ...

Around 4,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian craftsman sculpted a little frog, a grasshopper, and a dragonfly. Lovely details from nature dep...