简介：an ongoing series of entertaining and educational articles about unusual or intriguing topics of all kinds. subjects include foods, places, language, ideas, history, science, and many more.

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“Interesting Thing of the Day”的内容更新

累计：657 篇（自 2007-04-02 起）

更新：约3篇/周，最后更新106 天前

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Leeches Reconsidered / Modern medicine sucks it up

i’m not particularly squeamish at the sight of blood. needles, on the other hand—or, let’s say, any sharp objects that could be used, intentionally or otherwise, to put a hole in my skin—give me the creeps. i can deal with injections and blood tests and so on as long as i don’t have to watch, but that sensation of having something poking under my ... (106 天前)

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Rebreathers / Taking scuba to new depths

if i end up completing all the tasks on my life’s to do list, i’ll live to be a very old man indeed. so many places to visit, books to read, foods to try, experiences to have—and the list is perpetually growing. “learn scuba diving” is on the list, but like “visit machu picchu” or “have dinner at la tour d’argent,” it’s something that requir... (108 天前)

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Titanium Art / The colorful process of anodization

when morgen and i got married, most of our wedding guests came up to us and said things like “congratulations!” or “enjoy your honeymoon!” one of our friends, however, on seeing our titanium wedding bands, cautioned us gravely, “avoid electrified salt solutions.” that’s one of the strangest things anyone has ever said to me. not knowing how else... (111 天前)

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Sandboarding / Dry surfing or hot snowboarding?

it was in a high school english class that i first ran across emerson’s famous quote, “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…” something about that struck a chord with me, and ever since, i have tried to nurture a healthy appreciation for paradox if not outright contradiction. for example, as i may have mentioned, sports are not am... (112 天前)

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Lagniappe / But wait, there's more!

on our last trip to paris, morgen and i met some friends for dinner at a restaurant that had gotten some very good reviews. the owner of the restaurant arrived at our table to take our orders, and we told him the prix fixe set menu sounded good. he looked strangely concerned, as though we foreigners couldn’t possibly know what we were getting ourselve... (116 天前)

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Bread Pudding / Carbohydrates and marketing scams

given a menu listing a dozen dessert items, i invariably gravitate toward one of the two or three choices on the list that include chocolate as a main ingredient. i don’t think of this as a boring or predictable preference; on the contrary, life is short, and i feel one must not miss an opportunity to experience one of earth’s great pleasures. you ca... (118 天前)

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Oysters Rockefeller / The secret of name recognition

i studied philosophy in college, but as much as i enjoyed it, i had to choose a different profession. if i hadn’t, i risked a fate that seems to befall most philosophers sooner or later: having one’s name turned into an adjective. think about it: platonic, socratic, aristotelian, augustinian, cartesian…i’ve even heard husserlian and wittgensteinian... (119 天前)

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