by Maggie Villiger
One of best things about my job as a science editor is that any crazy idea I start wondering about – whether triggered by something I see on my commute, a current event that’s in the news, or best of all a conversation with my young kids – I can call up an expert and ask her or him to break it down for me, and you.
It seems like our readers enjoy this type of “I’ve always wondered … ” article too. My most-read story of the past year was by an entomologist making the case to bug-haters that by killing a spider they might actually be making their homes more hospitable to insects the spider would have eaten and eliminated for them.
Below, a handful of my favorites from 2018. But curiosity isn’t bound by the calendar, so here’s to a new year of everyday science.
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i spent two years making asia just to make this map. oh my god. the tag list couldnt get longer oh my god
Young Justice: One Gifset Per Episode: Season Two, Episode Nineteen: Summit
@askhospitaller‘s OC for an art trade owob
Me, everyday 😂
Misconception: America and England are biological brothers.
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Richard Crafus, a giant of a man known as King Dick, was a notorious inmate who ruled a block in Dartmoor Prison in the early 19th century. Few in Britain have heard of him, and fewer still know of his extraordinary contribution to British theatre.
It is thanks to this American “gangster-turned-theatre impresario” – and his fellow inmates of Prison Four – that the first all-black productions of Shakespeare were staged in Britain in 1814, according to Simon Mayo, who has made one of those productions central to his novel Mad Blood Stirring.
Why do you all still make england out to be some boy with a stick up his ass all the time look at this.
Maple syrup. In a freakin wine bottle. I can only imagine Francis getting this for Matthew as a birthday present, and Matthew just being so moved that he cooks pancakes for the world’s best papa.
i aint a prequel fan. im just a Padme fan.
*takes his glasses* how many fingers am I holding up?
“Now give em back.”
//I guess I’ll use this style for simpler stuff