Archaeoacoustics: the study of how one might recover sounds inadvertently recorded while a brush painted a canvas, or a stylus was working on clay. This may seem far-fetched, but some serious (or less serious) proposals have been floating around for a while. Check this site for a review of the hoaxes and real possibilities.

Other structures may be designed to create auditory effects, now or in the past. Check this article about it. Some examples are the steps in ancient American pyramids and some modern sculptures. Hear the chirped echo from an ancient temple in Teotihuacan, Mexico:

This is an ambigram: try looking at it upside down. I had never heard of those, but there are many homepages dedicated to ambigrams...

This guy wants to do a series of trades, starting with a paper clip and ending up with a house to live in. Now he's already got a house to live in for one year in Arizona.

Laboratory-engineered bladders have been successfully transplanted back into patients.

Gary Younge in The Guardian on whether there's a "new McCarthyism" going on in U.S. academic institutions.

An essay by Ian McEwan on the tradition of literary science writing.