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Why do some people prefer bitter drinks?
There's been a wave of popularity for drinks like the Aperol spritz, the Negroni, and a host of cocktails flavoured with "bitters". Why are people turning their backs on sweet cocktails in favour of a bitter taste?
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Prince George Will Never Be King
The monarchy's future is less certain than you think
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How The Hardest Hit Areas From Hurricane Sandy Look One Year Later
Side-by-side photos show the terrible damage in the Tri-State area right after Hurricane Sandy — and then one year later.
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Proposed tower for the 1937 Paris Exposition: Phare du Monde
Towering almost half a mile above the ground, dwarfing such gigantic structures as the Empire State Building and the Eiffel tower, a huge concrete tower 2300 feet high, surmounted with a beacon and built with a spiral ramp for autos to climb up its sides, stuns the imagination with its vastness.
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The kilo is losing weight, changing all of science, but unfortunately we don’t know why
Deep below Paris, in a vault that can only be opened by the simultaneous turning of three keys held by three different people, is the international prototype kilogram — the kilo against which all other kilos are based.
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An American's Death, Still A Greek Mystery 65 Years Later
George Polk was a CBS correspondent when he was murdered while covering the Greek civil war in 1948
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The Funny Math of Clothing Sizes
When it comes to women's clothing sizes, there's some funny math going on. The average American woman is about 25 pounds heavier than she was in 1960. Yet women's plus-size clothing, generally defined as size 14 and up, still makes up only about 9 percent of the $190 billion spent annually on clothes.
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The Apple Lisa, 1983
You think the brand new cylindrical Mac Pro is a leap into the future? It's got nothing on the Lisa, Apple's very first machine for business professionals, released three decades before its Mac Pro descendent.
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A Brief History of Painkillers (And Why They Work)
It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without pain relief. We depend on these drugs to an unspeakable degree, yet few of us know what’s available or how they even work. Here’s a quick primer on painkillers and why they’re so good at easing the pain.
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30 Years After the Beirut Bombing We Have Learned Nothing
On the 30th anniversary of the bombing in Beirut that killed 241 members of the U.S. military, Christopher Dickey says America has failed to learn the harsh lessons of Middle East intervention.
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IGN presents: The Museum of Mario
An interactive experience exploring the many eras of Mario.
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The King David You Never Knew
In the Bible, he’s the wise king who authored the greatest poetic wisdom of all time and was a portrait of repentance. But the real King David was a lot nastier—and more fascinating.
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10 old letter-writing tips that work for emails
Before email, letter-writing guides were best sellers, the faddy self-help books of their day. There are still many things that we can learn from them before pressing "send", says Simon Garfield.
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“There were 17,000 YouTubes before YouTube”
I know an entrepreneur who launched an online video platform in 1998. It never took off, and went out of business within two years. He still tells people he invented YouTube.
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Five storms that shaped history
The current bad weather in the south of the UK prompted a discussion about moments in history shaped by storms. Historian Dan Snow recalls five of the most significant.
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Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit Was Made by a Bra Manufacturer
No one knows what Columbus was wearing when he set foot in the New World, but on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong took his “one giant leap” onto the Moon, he was clad in this custom-made spacesuit, model A7L, serial number 056. Its cost, estimated at the time as $100,000 (more than $670,000 today), sounds high only if you think of it as couture.
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April 1912 headline: "Titanic Sinking; No Lives Lost"
Most people found out the Titanic had struck an iceberg from newspapers like this one from Canada. Most newspaper headlines were raving that the Titanic had hit an iceberg and that everyone survived and the ship was being towed to New York by the Carpathia.
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The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic
Wednesday marks the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles’ electrifying War of the Worlds broadcast, in which the Mercury Theatre on the Air enacted a Martian invasion of Earth.
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Does History Repeat Itself, But With More Porn?
From Madonna to Miley Cyrus, has there been any progress in this conversation about whether it’s feminist or anti-feminist for a women to use sex or nudity to sell her pop music?
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32 Superstition Origins
This week, John takes a look at the origin of some common superstitions, such as a black cat crossing your path, throwing salt over your left shoulder, and walking under a ladder.
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