History How a raunchy love charm became an innocent nursery rhyme Ellsworth Toohey

art Odilon Redon's surreal fish-man drawing is both creepy and captivating Popkin

Science Giant 17th-century astrolabe could fetch millions at auction Rob Beschizza

art Painters have been lying with mirrors for 600 years Ellsworth Toohey

Science Fourth musketeer D'Artagnan's grave found Rob Beschizza

History The caganer: Catalonia's defecating nativity figure Ellsworth Toohey

Civil War soldiers called the first instant coffee "axle grease" Ellsworth Toohey

Watch Adam Savage learn how to handle a 17th-century samurai sword Séamus Bellamy

fashion Valentino, Italian fashion legend, dead at 93 Rob Beschizza

Book The Book of Dreams and Ghosts: 78 strange tales of demons, ghosts, and poltergeists from Andrew Lang Popkin

Vermeer Is one of these nearly identical Vermeer paintings a forgery? Ellsworth Toohey

Funny The 17th-century cruel prank chair in Copenhagen that soaks and humiliates its victims Popkin

Weird In 1678, a fiery field and a devil with a scythe made crop circle history Popkin

france 200 years ago, France forced Haiti to pay $44 billion for daring to free themselves from slavery Ellsworth Toohey

gadgets Crossing U.S. border with your devices may be unsafe Rob Beschizza

london Early illustration of 17th-century London's coffeehouse culture Popkin

cartoons The surreal joy of Arent van Bolten's Grotesques Popkin

absurd hybrid cutlery How to make America great again: get rid of the spork Carla Sinclair

trump "Recrudescence" is the word of the day Jennifer Sandlin

Science Man buried with stones on his chest for a very creepy reason Allan Rose Hill