Latest articles by Therese O'Neill
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8 weird and fantastic food blogs
feature We're fortunate to live in a time and place where we have the luxury to truly play with our food
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How did humans learn to paint in 3 dimensions?
feature For centuries, art was weirdly flat and unrealistic. And then all of a sudden...
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How to grow your bosom (according to 100-year-old beauty books)
feature Sweet food + sweet thoughts = sweet bosom
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The secret histories of 6 ubiquitous American foods
feature Bet you've never had fish-innards kê-tsiap
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5 easy tips for better hair (from the early 1900s)
feature Pour cyanide on your scalp — and other tried-and-true pointers from the turn of the last century
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15 unbelievably sexist old postcards
feature They don't get better with age
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These 1980s Montgomery Ward's models hate you
feature Why?
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7 obscure status symbols
feature In some parts of the world, people would rather have a pile of powdered rhino horn than a Lexus
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9 delightful recipes from the 1950s you should make with your kids today
feature Yes, you can cook like a Cleaver
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11 crafty gifts for the science buff in your life
feature Think outside the home chemistry set
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Sexist postcards (from 100 years ago)
feature Be warned: You will cringe
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5 great skincare tips (from 100 years ago)
feature Hope you stocked up on acetate of lead!
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8 inventions that will revolutionize your kitchen
feature Quit slogging it out with the same old dish towels, dryer racks, and non-whimsical refrigerators your ancestors used
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7 smart products that will teach your child really cool lessons
feature These kits stealthily teach kids core principles of science and engineering
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12 cruel anti-suffragette cartoons
feature 93 years ago this month, American women won the right to vote. But not before they were ridiculed and vilified.
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6 people who survived their own executions
feature Being hanged by incompetent executioners can be a blessing in disguise
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6 innovative artists using fascinatingly unusual mediums
feature Paint? Where we're going, we don't need paint.
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9 bizarre and endearing inventions (from 100 years ago)
feature Popular Mechanics has long profiled interesting new ideas and inventions, even if those innovations were destined to go no further than the magazine's pages
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9 things you didn't know were named after people
feature You didn't want to face off against the artillery of General Henry Shrapnel
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7 surprising ways Mother Nature is trying to kill you
feature Plants, dirt, and even rocks are more dangerous than you probably imagined
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6 of the fiercest one-liners in history
feature Finding the right words when detonating an atomic bomb or sacrificing one's life for friendship came easy for these people
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5 hilarious YouTube history lessons
feature This is way more fun than that class you slept through in high school
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5 of history's biggest killjoys
feature Who would declare war on Christmas, alcohol, and sex? These extremely uptight people.
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How birth control became everybody's business
feature In the 1800s, what was once a personal choice became an issue of public decency
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