The Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be the most misunderstood environmental subject there is, and the misunderstanding is remarkably specific. People do not merely have a vague sense of it;…
Some questions look simple and turn out to have no answer. How long is the coastline of Britain is one of them, and the discovery of why is one of…
Antonio Stradivari worked in Cremona in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and the instruments he made have become the most valuable objects in music. Individual examples sell for…
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Chichén Itzá sits in the northern Yucatán Peninsula, and at its centre stands El Castillo, formally the Temple of Kukulkán. It is roughly 30 metres tall, nine stepped terraces…
Almost nobody who drinks coffee daily has seen the plant it comes from, and the vocabulary actively misleads.
A coffee bean is not a bean. It is a seed, and…
Almost everyone who cooks has stood over a chopping board with streaming eyes, and almost everyone has a theory about how to stop it. Light a match. Hold a spoon…