Kind of Curious

When I picked up The Man Who Loved Books Too Much off the shelf at Borders, I thought it was about me. But no, apparently there is another...

The city of Rome is home to more obelisks than any other city in the world. This is the story of two of those obelisks, that once stood in t...

Who would have thought that my childhood chemistry set would wind up in a museum? And not 100 feet from a famous “chymistry” book by the fat...

I recently read Dry Storeroom No. 1 by Richard Fortey. A strange title, but the subtitle tells you what it is about – The Secret Life of th...

Welcome back to Kind of Curious! I hate to say, but it’s been almost a year since I last posted. So I have quite a backlog of curious things...

Happy New Year! No, this post (Thomas Edison and the Dragon's Blood) is not the newest installment of Harry Potter. As I promised in my...

This weekend we visited the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey. I used to love visiting there as a kid, and I...