Cicadapalooza, Badass Librarians, and Lost Nuclear Bombs
What makes an album the greatest of all time?
Is 2024 the Cicadapocalypse or a Cicadapalooza?
OK map making nerds—where’s your revolution?
Nuclear reactor or medieval castle?:
The global state of social connections.
Japan’s sleeplessness crisis poses threat to society, warns leading expert.
6 badass librarians who changed history.
Exactly how much less America walks than other countries, in five charts:
What did Roman wine taste like? Much better than previously thought, according to new research.
On Himalayan hillsides grows Japan’s cold, hard cash.
A day in the life of a Walmart manager who makes $240,000 a year.
Cameroon opens museum honoring oldest sub-Saharan kingdom:
This is what being in your twenties was like in 18th-century London.
Grandmother holds plank for 4.5 hours by 'breathing, staying calm and not shaking'—and sets world record.
The function of colour in factories, schools & hospitals.
In Iceland, Jan Erik Waider captures voluminous bubbles locked in a frozen glacial lake:
Book-ban campaigns hit 4,240 titles last year.
The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find.
I’m retired, and I still won’t let myself read in the daytime. Why not?
This is a teenager.