# Dangerous Wonder — A Field Guide to Everything Worth Knowing
Dangerous Wonder — A Field Guide to Everything Worth Knowing. Exploring the natural world, inventions, strange phenomena, maps, the human body, and the cosmos.

The world is vast. Most of it remains undiscovered — by you. Its Maker set no boundary on wonder.

Welcome to Dangerous Wonder, a compendium of the curious, the marvellous, and the quietly astonishing. Since 1999, we have been cataloguing the overlooked corners of knowledge — the things your textbooks forgot, the phenomena your teachers never mentioned, the maps of places that exist only in the margins.
This site is a map of wonders. Follow any path that calls to you. There are no wrong turns. Every trail leads back to the same astonishment: that all of this was spoken into being.

## Where Shall You Begin?

The Natural World
Forests, oceans, creatures, and the hidden logic of living things
Inventions & Ideas
The machines and notions that reshaped the world
Strange Phenomena
Optical illusions, weird science, and things that shouldn't be
Maps & Places
Real and imagined geographies, faraway lands
The Human Body
The most remarkable machine you will ever inhabit
Space & Beyond
Stars, planets, and the deep emptiness between everything

Did You Know?
The oldest known living organism is a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California. It is over 5,000 years old — older than the Great Pyramid of Giza. It has no name, and its exact location is kept secret to protect it from those who might do it harm. Five thousand years of roots drinking snowmelt, and every spring it still puts on new growth — as though the command to cover the earth has never been revoked.
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You found something hidden. The world rewards the attentive. "The heavens declare the glory of God," the psalmist wrote, and so does everything else — if you know how to listen. There are wonders here that do not announce themselves. Learn more about this site.