Cor. This list was published 8 years ago, but gives the book-of-my-PhD-thesis a rave review. So it must be a very good list.

Those were the days...

No, not really.

Nice little story.

It’s a reasonable theory.

Wow!

Actually, yes she did.

Greg Benford’s dinner with Martin Rees, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.

On gender and Erdős numbers.

Too good to be true.

Wow.

Not just *a* monument, *the* Monument.

The earliest surviving sound recordings - for @grandfarugi

Eat meat!

The women you don't see.

The amazing Antikythera mechanism.

Victorian tentacles!

I'm going to have to find a way of going to this.

Nice pictures.

Interesting question with interesting answers.

15 local(-ish) science and tech breakthroughs.

Great piece by @gerrylynch!

True story.

First installment of a three-part essay on the Leviathan of Parsonstown.

Amazing.

Wow.

The connection between the discovery of pulsars and Joy Division.

Gerbert of Aurillac (aka Pope Sylvester II).

The Antikythera mechanism