How a Librarian Figured Out What Was Written in This Microscopic Book

How a Librarian Figured Out What Was Written in This Microscopic Book

The University of Iowa library has more than 4,000 miniature books in its collection. The smallest one of all, though, manages to stand out from the rest by measuring in at an itty-bitty 0.138 inches square and 0.04 inches thick. And as The Atlantic uncovered, researchers have only just found out what text this tiny tome is holding, thanks to a new microscope.

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This Terrifying Lighting Storm Is a Masterful, Miniature Fake

This Terrifying Lighting Storm Is a Masterful, Miniature Fake

If you want to get a good shot of lightning, it helps to have an amazing sense of timing. Barring that, you could just fake it by creating an entire miniature lightning storm that looks impossibly real, and shooting that instead. Same difference.

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