Rebecca Escamilla
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Medieval Book Historian Erik Kwakkel Documents the Curious Methods Scribes Used to Repair Parchment
photo via medievalbooks From the fifth through 13th centuries, parchment, made from animal skin, was used for pages of books. Parchment was strong, but the…
Family With Kids Inspired by Banksy Creates Fun Street Art Out of Rocks, Sticks, and Leaves
After author and illustrator Aaron Zenz‘s daughter Gracie watched Exit Through the Gift Shop, a documentary film by Banksy, she decided she wanted to be…
Ethereal Frost Flowers Form Under Special Weather Conditions in the Ozarks
Jennifer Fenwick, the director of institutional giving at Science Friday, received photos of ethereal, beautiful frost flowers from her mother. Over the weekend, my mom…
How to Make Beautiful Crystal Bottle Stoppers to Dress Up Liquor Bottles
Emily Schuman of Cupcakes & Cashmere fell in love with the look of some beautiful bottle stoppers by Michael C. Fina, but didn’t love the…
Outtakes From Season Seven of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ Featuring Riker Chasing a Shipmate
Uproxx has released a short collection of silly outtakes from Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this gag reel, Geordi and Data get silly, Picard…
The Singapore Broadway Harmonica Ensemble Hauntingly Performs Classic Music Using Only Harmonicas
The Singapore Broadway Harmonica Ensemble is composed of six harmonica players and has performed for 19 years out of Singapore. The ensemble’s eerie, old-timey sound…
‘The Watcher Files Project’, An Investigation and Response to Archived Portland, Oregon Police Surveillance Documents
Activist Lloyd Marbet selling a newspaper in a 1969 surveillance photo In the 1960s through 1980, the Portland, Oregon Police Bureau conducted surveillance on civic…
Holocaust Survivor Ela Stein Weissberger Offers a Message of Hope & Resistance in a Revival of the Opera ‘Brundibár’
Park Ridge, Illinois-based Petite Opera Productions has revived the children’s opera Brundibár, a piece written before World War II by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása…
Researchers Discover Early Copy of the Quran Written Only Decades After the Prophet Muhammad’s Death
photo by Dr. Wilfried Lagler Researchers at the Coranica Project at the University of Tübingen have discovered that a manuscript of the Quran donated to…
Illinois Parent Creates Vivid Drawings on Her Kids’ Lunch Bags Every Day
Illinois artist Christy Kilgore creates vivid colored pencil and marker drawings on her kids’ otherwise bland brown lunch bags each day. Some drawings are of…