Tag: features

Louis Pasteur’s journal

A rare moment indeed, when one locates such a prized and sought after repository of firsthand discovery.  Louis Pasteur’s journal recounts his trials in developing the famous Pasteurization process, a name he took immense pride in designating.  Behold the immortalized words of a pioneering researcher, so far ahead of his time that his time finally […]

Omg plz: look how we got ‘nentba’

2 April 2113 New England Journal o’ Net Lingo, 9(3) Research pioneered by Seamus P. Hoffstead, PhD in the field of abbreviations’ history has yielded stunning revelations concerning the etymologies of many digislang terms, notably this ironic gem from almost a century ago. Printed below is a recently decoded SMS exchange between Holly Harmon and […]

Attempted suicide note

Among the effects of billionaire investor Guy von Blitzen to be recovered from the wreck of his Sunseeker 131 was a handwritten suicide note.   Within hours of the collision with a rock in the Adriatic Sea which reduced his superyacht to flotsam, this note was made public by an exuberant tabloid press before Mr. […]