What if we looked at history horizontally? Why Beethoven almost dedicated his 3rd symphony to Napoleon and other stories, by WaitButWhy. Did you know that Mozart wrote his Requiem at the same time as the US forefathers were writing the Bill of Rights? This and many...

How Bergson’s philosophy robbed Einstein of a Nobel Prize in physics, via the great Brain Pickings (do click to read this fascinating story in its entirety) When the Nobel Prize was awarded to Einstein a few months later, it was not given for the theory that had made...

What doesn’t kill you becomes flowers: these tanks swallowed by nature are incredibly peaceful.Give it time. With time, even the most fearful of things all meet the same end. One question remains. Is it a metaphor of peace, or an expression of entropy?...

Metropolitan Government of Tokyo issued this incredible survival guide for its inhabitants. It’s useful, simple and beautifully made. Download it there.