Christopher Forth, The Atlantic
One night in 1731, Cornelia di Bandi burst into flames. When the 62-year-old Italian countess was found the next morning, her head and torso had been reduced to ash and grease.Only her arms and legs remained intact.
Sara Toth Stub, Archaeology
The Dead Sea includes the lowest point on Earth, at more than 1,400 feet below sea level, and lies in a long and narrow desert valley that runs through Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank. The sea itself is nearly 1,000 feet deep and covers more than 200 square miles, but its water is too salty to support any life beyond microscopic bacteria.
Ryan Mandelbaum, Gizmodo
Science journalists around the world received one of the silliest corrections yet in our inbox over the weekend, and I would like to share it here with you.Last Thursday, Cell Press, which publishes well-known science journals like Cell, Current Biology, and Neuron, sent an email with press summaries for papers slated to be published. The title of one of those summaries was, as follows:
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A man with a knife in each hand began stabbing children waiting for a school bus
A man with a knife in each hand began stabbing children waiting for a school bus
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