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In Praise of Foolish Holidays

Sociologists are telling us that Americans are drinking less, partying less, and generally turning into beige furniture. A recent Gallup...

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Aug 298 min read

Men in Wigs

There are certain mysteries of human history we no longer question. Why did we build pyramids? Why did we invent mayonnaise? Why did we...

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Aug 1512 min read

Animals on Trial

There’s something almost touching about the human obsession with order. We alphabetize spices we haven’t used in years, color-code sock...

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Aug 813 min read

Tipping Points

There’s a particular comfort in believing that history happens elsewhere . In distant empires, over flickering black-and-white film,...

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Jun 1315 min read

Myths, Madness, and Divine Meltdowns: The Most Absurd Stories from Greek Mythology

The Greeks, for all their philosophy and democracy, had a peculiar knack for storytelling - one that leaned heavily on divine egos, petty...

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Mar 1418 min read

The Most Ridiculous Scams in History

There’s a fine line between genius and idiocy, and some people dance back and forth across it with wild enthusiasm. The world has never...

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Mar 714 min read

Crazy Tidbits our History Books Left Out

History, for all its posturing as the noble record of humanity's triumphs and tragedies, has always had a peculiar knack for being...

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Jan 3117 min read

Geography: Strange Places and Weird Spaces

The Earth is a fascinating and infuriating enigma, a patchwork of peculiarities stitched together with a combination of cartographic...

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Jan 2414 min read

The Dinner Party

The dinner party: a social institution where the promise of companionship often gives way to the grim reality of under seasoned...

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Jan 109 min read

April Fool’s Day in a Sparkly Dress

Imagine this: It’s New Year’s Eve. You’re crammed into a room, clutching a flute of champagne that tastes like optimism watered down with...

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Dec 27, 20249 min read

Bizarre Victorian Christmas Cards

The Christmas card, that flimsy token of obligatory cheer we now dutifully shuffle through each December, was born not as a wholesome...

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Dec 20, 20248 min read

What Were They Thinking?

Late Tuesday evening, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol took a page from the "How Not to Lead" playbook, scribbling his name on a...

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Dec 6, 202412 min read

Money: What is It?

Once upon a time - around 600 BC in Lydia, where today you’d find Turkey - someone struck a chunk of electrum, a natural alloy of gold...

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Nov 15, 202411 min read

Lessons Not Learned From History

There’s a funny thing about history. It seems almost like a ghost, doesn’t it? Always lingering in the background, rattling its chains to...

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Nov 8, 202414 min read

All Chips Are Not Created Equal

There’s something oddly ceremonial about the act of opening a bag of potato chips. A rip, a puff of air, and suddenly you’re holding a...

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Oct 18, 20248 min read

War, what is it good for?

War. Noun : a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state. Verb : to...

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Oct 4, 202414 min read

Hell

One of our regular readers (we do very much appreciate all of them!) recently sent us a note that they’d been having discussions with...

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Sep 20, 202418 min read

Pulling Open the Curtains on Windows

Windows. No, not the operating system that frustrates so many of us daily, but the real windows - those glassy apertures that have shaped...

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Sep 5, 202410 min read

Teeth – Where Every Molar Has a Tale to Tell

We recently attended the grand opening of a good friend’s dental clinic. And this got us to thinking about, well, teeth. Not just the...

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Aug 30, 202411 min read

Olympics, Weird and Wonderful

The Paris Olympics have just wrapped up, leaving the world in a state of collective awe and adrenaline withdrawal. The precision of...

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Aug 16, 202412 min read