Image: Internet Archive Designer Cam Wilde assembled this “periodic table of typefaces” by tabulating each face’s representation among a selected honor roll of great typefaces. The “elements” are sorted numerically, and each is categorized as

Which is bigger, a jillion or a zillion? No one’s quite sure, though we all use these terms pretty readily. In 2016 Wayne State University linguistic anthropologist Stephen Chrisomalis cataloged the first appearance

In 2012 I mentioned that Helen Fouché Gaines’ 1956 textbook Cryptanalysis: A Study of Ciphers and Their Solution ends with a cipher that’s never been solved. Reader Michel Esteban writes: I think I found

A Fabergé pendant has been recovered - after police spent six days closely monitoring the man accused of swallowing it.

39,402,191,713 is prime, and replacing all three instances of 1 with any other (particular) digit produces another prime. Noted in an old MIT Technology Review.

In 1998, as aerospace engineer Homer Hickam’s memoir Rocket Boys was being adapted for the screen, Universal Studios’ research warned that women over 30 would not see a movie with that title. So the

In 1998, as aerospace engineer Homer Hickam’s memoir Rocket Boys was being adapted for the screen, Universal Studios’ research warned that women over 30 would not see a movie with that title. So the

A wazir is a fanciful chess piece that can move one square horizontally or vertically, but not diagonally. This one finds itself in the upper left corner of the board. Can it make