“MP3 player with Spotify” is a phrase Amazon listings use loosely, and the looseness is the whole problem. Spotify does not make an app for …
The creatures of Greek myth were never a bestiary; they were obstacles. Almost every one of the thirty below exists in the stories because a …
The Norse myths are short on gods who stay home and long on things with teeth. Odin rides an eight-legged horse and keeps two wolves …
Ask for inventions by women and the first answers are usually the same three: the windshield wiper, the dishwasher and Kevlar. They are good answers, …
A record player with speakers is the one-box answer to a question that otherwise turns into three purchases: a turntable, an amplifier with a phono …
Ask how many Norse gods there are and the honest answer is that the sources never settle it. The two medieval Icelandic books that preserve …
A heated mattress pad goes under your fitted sheet and warms the bed from below, which is a different thing from an electric blanket in …
A VHS to digital converter does one narrow thing: it takes the analogue video and audio coming out of a VCR, a camcorder or an …
Ask what Nikola Tesla invented and you get two kinds of answer. One is a short list that is mostly right: the alternating-current induction motor, …
A monument, in the strict sense, is a structure built to make people remember: a victory, a death, a founding, a catastrophe. That is a …