Jason Colavito (history, science, pseudoscience, science fiction, pop culture)

"Scholars Will Call It Nonsense": The Structure of von Däniken's Argument (1987)

Erich von Däniken has died

Associations between preservative food additives and type 2 diabetes incidence

The Great Goddard Library Debate

Top Visualizations of 2025

Louis vs. Gerstner, Who Revived a Faltering IBM in the '90s, Dies at 83

We just unredacted some of the Epstein files

Reinventing the Wheel with In-Wheel Motors

GilGerard.com

Night factory tours provide history lesson of Japan's modern economy

Feast Your Eyes on Japan's Fake Food

A Matrix of Saab Wheels

Is A.I. Actually a Bubble?

The Beguiling, Misunderstood Theremin

I'm 62. Stop Telling Me I'm Old

A Camera of Miroslav Tichý

Tracking domestication signals across populations of North American raccoons

Why Hotel-Room Cancellations Disappeared

A Day at the Beach Hunting Mammoths

ADHD traits, sleep/circadian factors, depression and quality of life

The Next Privacy Battleground Is Inside Your Brain

Who still uses cash?

Synthetic Socrates, Teaching Assistant

Senator Grassley Calls on the Federal Judiciary to Formally Regulate AI Use

Caduceus vs. Staff of Aesculapius – One Snake or Two?

Automating Oral Argument

Singing bus horns in West Sumatra

Cheese Crystals (2019)

TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software

I Am Sitting in a Room – Alvin Lucier (1981)

Blaand – Seeing Whey in a New Old Way (2019)

Entoptic Phenomena (1995)

The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches

Dragon Hatchling: Neural Network That Thinks Like a Brain (and Runs on Your GPU)

Artificially sweetened and sugary drinks – increased risk of liver disease

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

A photographer traveled across North America's Chinatowns. Here's what he saw

A tool in the fight against Amazon: independent bookshops begin selling ebooks

A blue jay and a green jay mated. Their offspring is a scientific marvel

Flock Safety says AI surveillance could stop all crime

Second Hand Mortuary Fridges

'One Battle After Another' Is in VistaVision. Should You Care?

The Development of VistaVision: Paramount Marches to a Different Drummer (1996)

The new, unusual solution to EV fires: High-speed battery ejection

Clean Label Project

Autonomous Airport Ground Support Equipment

A Bucolic Stone-Skimming Contest in Scotland Is Infiltrated by Cheaters

Overtourism leading to more car crashes in Scotland. Are T-plates the answer?

Tourist Plate: Reduce Stress and Raise Awareness When Driving Abroad

The Lost Ancestors of ASCII Art (2014)

Two billionaires have different – and wild – visions of a future in space

Quality characteristics and consumer perception of non-alcoholic beers

Tom Lehrer, "The Elements", live, 1967