Humans love shiny rocks. This magpie tendency to collect pretty stones is found in most cultures and throughout history. For the shiniest…

Candy has a way of bringing people together, and just about everyone can agree that it is one of the good things…

Have you ever awoken to discover you’d slept through something noteworthy overnight? Many of us can sleep through an alarm but some…

By modern standards, life in ancient Rome was awful. Slavery was rampant, health care was very basic, and if you were poor,…

If you’ve scrimped and saved and now are finally able to afford to buy a bigger or better place, the last thing…

Sex and cinema go together like eggplant emojis and sexting. The relations between a man and woman on screen—or a man and…

Everyone makes mistakes, so the saying goes. The problem is that the word “mistake” doesn’t hold a lot of meaning. Sure, it…

Biggest, smallest, oldest, tallest. Only relatively recently have we begun reliably recording the limits of what human beings can be, do or…