"Interesting" Blogs & Blog Posts

Hear a Medievalist professor answer an array of interesting Medieval questions. This video made me realize just how little I know about what things were like back then. Professor of English and Medieval Literature Dr. Dorsey Armstrong gets into the...

If you've ever encountered a grave with an iron cage around it, you may wonder what the purpose of the cage is for. Although these cages may look like they were created to keep zombies and vampires from rising up from their coffins—my guess when I...

Practical Engineering covers the modern engineering fix for the Leaning Tower of Pisa. This 13-minute video shares the history and recent engineering fix for the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Having heard so much about the tower I thought I knew its story,...

The last meal of the condemned is a tradition going back centuries, although it's now closely associated with the death penalty as we understand it in modern-day America. While the last requests of infamous inmates like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy...

"Wallpaper Specimens from Shadows from the Walls of Death" is a book from 1874 that contains swaths of poisonous wallpaper from stores around Michigan. The book was created as an educational tool to warn people about which wallpapers to take caution...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Manchester City (@mancity) The beautiful thing about art is that there's no "right way" to do it. Unlike math and science, which each possesses a strict set of rules, art is 100% malleable.

It's impossible to utter the words pro-wrestling without prompting a smirk from whoever is in earshot. Stripped of context, this doesn't make any sense. Wrestling is one of the most grueling sports in existence, demanding an exhausting training regim...