Brent Antonson spent years living abroad including extended stints teaching English at universities in Russia, Iraq and China. He circumnavigated the Northern Hemisphere by train over five journeys.
How the Hell Did I Get This Picture??? This started with one of the oldest jokes in existence: Why did the chicken cross the road? I wanted to know where the joke came from, why it survived for nearly 200 years, and why something that isn’t even really a...
The Architecture of Power Look at what human beings build when they want power to become visible. The Great Imperial Crown of Russia almost doesn’t look real. Made for the coronation of Catherine the Great in 1762, it contains 4,936 diamonds weighing 2,858 carats, 75 enormous pearls,...
