Hi everyone! Pleased to be back on Boing Boing again. Last time I was here with Dylan Thuras we announced the launch of the Atlas Obscura, a user-generated compendium of… Read the rest of the article: Obscura Day, March 20: visits to wondrous, curious, and esoteric places

Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras are guest bloggers on Boing Boing. They are co-founders of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and Esoterica. Many thanks to… Read the rest of the article: Thank you and farewell

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: The Devil's Kettle

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: Barometer store in England features reproduction of a "Tempest Prognosticator," a.k.a "Leech Barometer"

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: World's largest collection of bottle ships

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: Pigeons trained to recognize bad art

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: Sir Richard Francis Burton, Cardinal Mezzofanti, and other eminent polyglots

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: The pfeilstorch of Mecklenburg, or how we came to know that birds migrate

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: Monticello's clever windvane

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: MASS MoCa harmonic bridge plays traffic in the key of C

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: Wacky gilded pyramid house in Illinois

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: Researchers expand clinical study of brain implant

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: Moussavi the architect

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: A library of the world's most unusual compounds

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: Amsterdam's National Museum of Spectacles

I was just looking back at my posts here on Boing Boing from the last couple days (the optical telegraph, the whistling language of La Gomera) and I noticed that long-distance communication has been one of the themes. … Hollerin' (no "g" at the end, just an apostrophe) is an ancient tradition native to the lowlands of eastern North Carolina, and it needs to be distinguished from the other vocal pursuits to which it bears some resemblance, including hollering, yodeling, hog calling, whooping, and hooting.

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: The "ostrich-footed" Vadoma of Zimbabwe

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: One month to go until the next total solar eclipse

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: The Chappe Optical Telegraph

Joshua Foer is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Joshua is a freelance science journalist and the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura: A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities, and… Read the rest of the article: The Whistling Island of La Gomera