That Underground City With The Rolling Stone Doors
There is a cliff-town under Cappadocia that you can literally bolt shut from the inside with millstone doors and I adore the theatricality of it.Read More 
When Your Hand Goes Rogue
Proper daft: one of your hands can start doing stuff on its own, like some tiny squaddie with a vendetta.Read More 
Victorians Took Dead Selfies And Called Them Keepsakes
They posed corpses like sleepy roommates, propped eyes open with paint and wire, and kept the photos on the mantel like it was no big deal.Read More 
They Ground Up Mummies And Called It Medicine
Honey, for centuries Europeans bought powdered Egyptian mummies from apothecaries and swore they cured everything from headaches to bad manners.Read More 
There's A Sneaky Bone Hiding Behind Your Knee
Some people grow a tiny spare bone called the fabella in the tendon behind the knee and it has the nerve to cause trouble on occasion.Read More 
Mercury's Tiny Angry Pits
Mercury's surface has little bright pits called 'hollows' - like the planet's been on the piss and forgotten to finish a DIY job.Read More 
My Head Hates WiFi, But Science Keeps Saying Not Guilty
People feel awful around phones and routers and that feeling is absolutely real; the weird fact is double blind studies almost always show they cannot tell when signals are actually on.Read More 
How Earwax Betrays Your Body Odor
One tiny gene decides whether your earwax is tacky gossip and whether your armpits submit evidence to the room.Read More 
Why Garden Snails Prick Each Other For Love
They stab one another with tiny calcareous daggers and call it romance, which is either evolutionary genius or the worst date in Gloucestershire history.Read More 
The Mountain That Outsmarted Everest (and I love it)
Everest gets the drama; Chimborazo quietly wins the title of farthest point from Earth's center and I am emotionally invested.Read More 