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The Disappearing Islands of History

Some islands vanish with a whisper, some with a storm. From mythical Hy-Brasil to modern Sandy Island, these fleeting lands remind us that even the map of the world is temporary — and that every island is just a promise the ocean hasn’t yet withdrawn.

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Oct 9, 2025The Edublox Team
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The Accidental Genius: When a Blow to the Head Awakens the Brain

After a violent attack, Jason Padgett awoke to a world of geometry. Once an ordinary man, he began seeing fractals and mathematical patterns everywhere. His brain injury had unlocked extraordinary mathematical insight — proof that the mind can sometimes rebuild itself into something astonishing.

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Oct 9, 2025The Edublox Team
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Famous Hoaxes That Fooled the World

From ape-skull forgeries to fairy photographs, from Martian invasions to Nigerian princes — history is littered with hoaxes that fooled millions. These tales reveal not just clever tricksters, but our own hunger for wonder, certainty, and stories too good to question.

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Sep 5, 2025The Edublox Team
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Foot-painters Have “Hands” in Their Brains: The Ultimate Testament of Neuroplasticity

Foot-painters create art with toes, but the true marvel lies in their brains. Neuroimaging shows their “hand areas” activate, as if the brain simply reassigned the role of fingers to feet. It is neuroplasticity in action — proof that the body sets limits, but the brain redraws the map.

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Aug 28, 2025The Edublox Team
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The Invisible Colleges: Secret Networks of Science Before the Enlightenment

Long before universities and journals, science survived underground. In the 17th century, invisible colleges — secret networks of thinkers — kept experiments and ideas alive under censorship. From Galileo’s allies to Boyle’s air pump, they laid the groundwork for modern science. Their story is proof that every discovery begins in whispers before it shines in light.

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Aug 27, 2025The Edublox Team
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Stories of the Strange and Sometimes Bizarre

In Stories of the Strange and Sometimes Bizarre, Stanley Armani opens a cabinet of curiosities: tales of phantom limbs, dancing plagues, plants that count, and forgotten inventions. Blending science, history, and the uncanny, this collection reveals the hidden patterns of the world — a journey into wonders too peculiar to ignore and too human to forget.

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Aug 26, 2025The Edublox Team
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The Dancing Plague of 1518: When Hundreds Couldn’t Stop Moving

In the summer of 1518, Strasbourg erupted into motion. Hundreds of people danced in the streets, unable to stop, some collapsing or even dying. Historians still debate whether it was mass hysteria, ergot poisoning, or a religious curse. The dancing plague remains one of history’s strangest and most haunting mysteries.

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Aug 24, 2025The Edublox Team
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The Birth of Forensics: How Detectives Used Fingerprints, Handwriting, and Insects to Solve Crimes

In the 19th century, justice shifted from rumor to science. Detectives began using fingerprints, handwriting, chemistry, and even insects to solve crimes. These early experiments, flawed but revolutionary, gave birth to modern forensics and proved that truth can be read in whorls of skin, in inked letters, and in the buzzing of flies.

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Aug 23, 2025The Edublox Team
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The Secret Codes of Prisons: How Inmates Communicate

Behind bars, words are often forbidden — but silence never wins. Inmates have long created hidden codes: folded letters, tattoos, chalk marks, and slang that outsiders miss. These secret languages are more than survival tools; they are acts of resistance, solidarity, and identity in places designed to strip all three away.

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Aug 22, 2025The Edublox Team
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Plants That Count: The Venus Flytrap’s Ability to “Do Math” Before Snapping Shut

The Venus flytrap doesn’t snap for raindrops. It waits, counts, and decides. Two touches mean prey, more touches trigger digestion. This remarkable arithmetic, driven by calcium signals, shows that math isn’t just for brains — it’s a survival tool written into nature’s code.

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Aug 21, 2025The Edublox Team
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Neuroplasticity in the Dark: How Blind Individuals “See” Through Sound and Touch

When sight is lost, the brain doesn’t go dark — it adapts. Through sound, touch, and astonishing neuroplasticity, blind individuals transform their visual cortex into a tool for “seeing.” From echolocation to Braille, this story reveals the brain’s hidden genius: resilience and reinvention in the face of darkness.

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Aug 20, 2025The Edublox Team
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Education Underground: How Learning Thrived in Forbidden Schools Across History

History’s most remarkable classrooms were never official. From Irish hedge schools to secret lessons for enslaved people, underground schools kept knowledge alive when it was banned. Their stories remind us that education is not only permission but defiance — proof that wherever minds hunger for learning, they will find a way.

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Aug 19, 2025The Edublox Team
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