geometry Why did this famous mathematician want a 17-sided shape on his tombstone? Ellsworth Toohey

books Percy Jackson and the Olympians adaptation looks not awful Grant St. Clair

History Check out this Ancient Greek yearbook Devin Nealy

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language In defense of the hard C Thom Dunn

Mysterious building discovered at planned site of new airport in Greece Allan Rose Hill

archaeology Archaeologist braves the Joe Rogan podcast to counter Graham Hancock's nonsense Jennifer Sandlin

outsider art Look inside this rented apartment secretly rebuilt into fantasy world by eccentric artist David Pescovitz

NPR Tiny Desk Concert Listen to Tarta Relena's beautiful harmonies and ambient bass Natalie Dressed

art Getty Museum posts nearly 88,000 scans of artwork with Creative Commons Zero license Rob Beschizza

missouri Free-market Senator Josh Hawley demands socialism to bail out failed company Mark Frauenfelder

cheese Meet the kitchen witch who reads fortunes in blocks of cheese David Pescovitz

david cronenberg Watch David Cronenberg's "Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection" (2023), featuring four 18th-century life-size wax anatomical models Jennifer Sandlin

art Nun's "luck-bringing" vulva sculpture becomes beacon for followers Mark Frauenfelder

nightmare fuel Nightmarish prototype of a wind-up creeping baby doll Mark Frauenfelder

television God of War is getting a live-action Amazon Prime Video series Devin Nealy

History Archaeologists find ancient ring meant to prevent hangovers David Pescovitz

fontography A bi-directional font that can be read forwards or backwards Clive Thompson

philosophy The philosophy and identity metaphysics of WandaVision Gareth Branwyn