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Readings — From the March 2000 issue
Readings — From the June 1999 issue
Editor's drawer — From the September 1920 issue
Editor's drawer — From the May 1913 issue
Editor's drawer — From the December 1884 issue
Editor's drawer — From the January 1881 issue
Editor's drawer — From the January 1881 issue
Editor's drawer — From the April 1855 issue
Editor's drawer — From the January 1854 issue
Editor's drawer — From the August 1852 issue
Editor's drawer — From the January 1852 issue
Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)
A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”
The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.
