Victorians Bought Coffins With Alarm Bells
In top hat days they built coffins with air tubes, glass windows and panic bells for anyone regretting the whole dying business.Read More 
That Tiny Fold In Your Eye Is A Third Eyelid Imposter
Nestled in the inner corner of your eye is the plica semilunaris, a vestigial third eyelid - evolution's polite, bureaucratic footnote.Read More 
They Told Me It Was A Sugar Pill And I Felt Better
Honesty, it seems, does not destroy the placebo; it dresses it up in sensible trousers and sends it to do the job.Read More 
We Take Turns: The Two Nations That Pass One Tiny Island Back And Forth
An uninhabited sliver of river is literally shared custody between France and Spain and swapped like an umbrella in a drizzle.Read More 
When Countries Redraw Tomorrow: How Nations Move the Date Line and Make Cartographers Swear
Some governments have quite literally redrawn tomorrow, shoving the International Date Line about like a reluctant houseguest and leaving maps, calendars and long-suffering atlas printers in a state of theatrical upset.Read More
When Rock Music Was Sued For Whispering To Your Brain
A legal case from 1990 turned the quaint idea of 'hidden commands in records' into a courtroom farce - and the court politely declined to believe in hypnotic turntables.
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