quote [ Thatcher's Techbase releases for free this Friday, September 24th ]

quote [ Inside some of our most magnificent trees, miniature worlds are at risk of extinction. The race is on to accelerate trees' ageing process, to save these intricate communities. ]

quote [ Q: Following the great video game crash of 1983, where did arcade operators and bar owners go next? A: Trivia games! ]

quote [ Sometimes, you just strike internet gold – ya know, those obscure little corners of the internet where you can fall blissfully down the rabbit hole. Today’s find is a free online library of unearthed and collected bartender books; rare volumes dating from the 1820s through the 1940s, faithfully digitised – every last page – by a little-known museum of wines and spirits located on the small island of Bendor in the south of France. ]

quote [ StEER engineers assess why some buildings survive hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and tsunamis, and why others do not ]

quote [ Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. The city’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on. ]

quote [ The science of controlling marauding, sacred monkeys, from the new book by best-selling author Mary Roach. ]

quote [ Among the “human curiosities” in P. T. Barnum’s American Museum was a supposed escapee from an Ottoman harem, a figure marketed as both the pinnacle of white beauty and an exoticised other. Betsy Golden Kellem investigates the complex of racial and cultural stereotypes that made the Circassian beauty such a sideshow spectacle. ]

quote [ Hawai‘i has long been packaged as paradise, allowing travelers to ignore the legacy of colonialism. What travelers need to know to travel to the islands responsibly. ]

quote [ Scientists may have cracked an essential secret of shorebirds’ marathon migrations. ]