Ice cream feels like the most universal of summer pleasures, but the appetite for it varies dramatically around the world — and the ranking of which countries eat the most…
Chocolate feels universal, but the appetite for it is wildly uneven around the world — and the ranking of who eats the most per person is one of those lists…
On a map of northeastern Africa, along the border between Egypt and Sudan, there is a small landlocked rectangle of desert with a peculiar distinction: it belongs to no one.…
Every July 22, World Brain Day invites the planet to appreciate the organ doing the appreciating — a globe of tissue that generates every thought, memory, and daydream you've ever…
Ask a room to guess the world's most visited country and the answers scatter — America, surely, or China, or wherever the pyramids are. The actual list, tracked by the…
Ask Americans which country drinks the most coffee and the confident answers come fast — Italy, obviously, or America itself, land of the venti. Both wrong, and not close. The…