Weird nativity sets.

The difference between Spider-Man and Santa Claus is very small

The real history of ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ — it all started with a Montgomery Ward marketing campaign in 1939.

How do cats use their whiskers to catch their prey?

1981 proposal: keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer’s chest-cavity

Inside the operating theater: early surgery as spectacle

ICYMI, last Monday’s links are here, and include the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor (and Monty Python’s reenactment), what Christmas meant to the Nazis, the politics of beards, most popular dog names of 2015, and the feast day of St. Nicholas of Myra (aka Santa Claus).