YouTube description: Frances Glessner Lee created dollhouses with dead dolls. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explains why. Frances Glessner Lee's "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 717 views • 8:16

YouTube description: What do all those bodies of water really mean? In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards travels through the map to define bodies of water. Find Phil Edwards on Facebook... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,336 views • 5:15

YouTube description: With Dr Holly Krieger from Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. More Numberphile videos with Dr Krieger: http://bit.ly/HollyKrieger Her Twitter: https://twitter.com/hollykrieger ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 243 views

"... In this episode of Overrated, Vox's Phil Edwards investigates the largely unheralded business reason behind the success of Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird.' Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird... continue reading

posted by ant 7 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 142 views • 5:28

"We're all familiar with Pomp & Circumstance, the graduation song that's the official soundtrack of almost every commencement. But how did it get so big? In this episode of Vox's Almanac, Phil Edwards... continue reading

posted by ant 7 years 10 months ago • 132 views • 5:34

"Look in the margins of medieval books and you'll find an unusual theme: knights vs. snails. Vox's Phil Edwards investigated why in this episode of Vox Almanac..."

posted by ant 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 86 views • 4:37

YouTube description: There's a hidden market in the supermarket — Vox's Phil Edwards explains. Read the article here: http://www.vox.com/2016/11/22/13707022/grocery-store-slotting-fees-slotting-allowances... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 130 views • 6:59

YouTube description: So...why does all the writing in comic books look like that? Vox's Phil Edwards looked into it and found an aesthetic shaped by comics culture, technology, and really cheap paper. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 6 months 1 week ago • 555 views • 8:33

YouTube description: We've reached peak lens flare. Vox's Phil Edwards explains how it happened. Lens flare: it's familiar from the very shiny work of J.J. Abrams, but it goes far beyond his flare-strewn... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 987 views • 4:25

Oh, so much confusion!

posted by brycewi19 9 years 6 months ago • 633 views • 8:59

Where do nicknames come from? Why are Ellens called Nellie and Edwards Ned? It's all a big misunderstanding from the early days of the English language, a misunderstanding that even the word nickname itself... continue reading

posted by randeepsamra 1 decade 1 year 5 months 2 weeks ago • 51 views • 4:57

June 25, 2013 - MSNBC. O'Donnell weighs in on what being a traitor actually means in the US based on what the Constitution says about it.

posted by not_blankfist 1 decade 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,441 views • 7:31