Miles Brucker articles

HISTORY

The astronomer's secret sits in museum drawers. Tycho Brahe charted the night sky and changed our view of the cosmos, but laboratory fragments tell another story entirely. He has pushed chemical boundaries in ways historians never suspected.

THINGS

The Great Alaska Earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the United States. Its violent tremors reshaped Alaska’s landscape and American earthquake preparedness forever.

THINGS

Studies have shown there is an actual limit to the number of people someone can interact with socially.

THINGS

Truth is stranger than fiction, and throughout history, pranksters, hucksters, and frauds exploited humanity’s hunger for the extraordinary.

PEOPLE

Weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald travelled to Mexico City. The purpose of his trip and what happened there are still shrouded in mystery.

SCIENCE

The ocean floor was covered with ice for who knows how long. Then, one day, it wasn’t. And in that bare stretch, a whole ecosystem blinked into view.

PEOPLE

Shortly after the loss of their child, Keanu Reeve’s girlfriend Jennifer Syme died in a car crash.

THINGS

The MahaNakhon in Bangkok was made to appear as though it is pixelated.

THINGS

As Italy turned into a battleground between foreign powers, Rome suddenly found itself in the crosshairs of a marauding horde.



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