Sunday, October 12

At A Glance


What was the dot-com bubble? Why the Nasdaq dropped 76% in two years.

The 1920 proposal to turn central Europe into a pizza-shaped state.

Breaking down why microwaves heat food in a fundamentally nonuniform way.

Inside "Blood Meridian" author Cormac McCarthy's library of 20,000 books.

The thrilling 99 bends of the Chinese road up to Tianmen Mountain.

How do inhalers actually work to treat asthma?

"Johnny Appleseed" was a real guy—itinerant horticulturalist John Chapman.

How Microsoft Excel launched in 1985 to serve a billion people today.

NFL stadiums are designed to maximize profits, not number of seats.

The story of a bitcoin loophole that gave one man millions.

The business behind America's 350,000 advertising billboards.

The three competing theories explaining how the pyramids were built.

Revisiting the milieu of the Greenwich Village music scene in the '60s.

How pitcher Pedro Martinez helped reverse the curse of the Red Sox.

Six of the seven wonders of the ancient world are destroyed.

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