The written entry, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/experiments/2026/10/19/sixty-five-hours.html

The story of Andrée's balloon and the Arctic, 1895 to 1930: the ropes that were the whole plan, left on a beach two minutes after the start, and the diaries that came home thirty-three years late.

The written version: https://journalsofexperiments.com/experiments/2026/10/19/sixty-five-hours.html#young

The written entry, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/experiments/2026/10/18/sixteen-reindeer.html

The story of the cutter Bear and Alaska, 1881 to 1950: the herd that grew to six hundred thousand, and the number that was the only thing anyone read.

The written version: https://journalsofexperiments.com/experiments/2026/10/18/sixteen-reindeer.html#young

The written entry, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/experiments/2026/10/18/dive-eighty-eight.html

The story of OceanGate's Titan, 2017 to 2023: the hull that gave its warning on dive 80, and the year nobody read it.

The written version: https://journalsofexperiments.com/experiments/2026/10/18/dive-eighty-eight.html#young

The written entry, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/experiments/2026/10/18/two-years-under-glass.html

The story of Biosphere 2, Oracle, Arizona, 1991 to 1993, and the oxygen that went into the walls.

The written version: https://journalsofexperiments.com/experiments/2026/10/18/two-years-under-glass.html#young

The written entry, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/experiments/2026/10/17/the-nuclear-boy-scout.html

The story of a potting shed in Michigan, 1991 to 1994, and the experiment nobody was watching.

The written version: https://journalsofexperiments.com/experiments/2026/10/17/the-nuclear-boy-scout.html#young

A word from 1875, a Russian idea, flasks in Hawaii, a Siberian basement, and the claim that the Earth could have a second instance.

The written piece, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/deeper/two-years-under-glass/biosphere-1/

Eight hungry people, the best blood work of their lives, and a result that undid itself in six months.

The written piece, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/deeper/two-years-under-glass/healthy-starvation/

Six and a half percent of the air was gone and the system was sealed. Where it went, and how counting carbon found it.

The written piece, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/deeper/two-years-under-glass/the-audit/

A reporter, a columnist and a committee were making three different complaints. Only one was ever answered.

The written piece, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/deeper/two-years-under-glass/the-critics/

Starved, short of breath, mocked on the way out, and at war with each other by month six. Five of them never left the field.

The written piece, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/deeper/two-years-under-glass/the-eight/

How a building with eighty kilometres of joints was made to leak less than a tenth of its air a year, and why nothing could have been learned without it.

The written piece, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/deeper/two-years-under-glass/the-seal/

Marshals on April 1, two biospherians at the airlock four nights later, and an archive nobody owns.

The written piece, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/deeper/two-years-under-glass/the-year-it-fell-apart/

The bees died, an ant took over, the desert went green, and the reef that lived became the project's real discovery.

The written piece, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/deeper/two-years-under-glass/what-lived-and-what-died/

The Bear after the reindeer, 1926 to 2021: a museum, a film, two Antarctics, a war, a restaurant that never opened, and fifty-eight years on the bottom.

The written piece, with its sources and photographs: https://journalsofexperiments.com/deeper/sixteen-reindeer/the-ship/

The Bear after the reindeer, 1926 to 2021: a museum, a film, two Antarctics, a war, a restaurant that never opened, and fifty-eight years on the bottom.

The written version: https://journalsofexperiments.com/deeper/sixteen-reindeer/the-ship/#young