Odd Victorian habits that sound made up today There’s a considerable distance between us and the Victorians, at least on the surface. Dig into a book like Judith Flanders’ Inside the Victorian Home, though, and […]
Features in old cars that made complete sense at the time Look at a car from fifty or eighty years ago and half its controls read as genuinely bizarre now. A crank on the front […]
Why was long hair on a man considered wrong before the 1900s? A reader wrote in with a genuinely good question: why does long hair on a man still read as unusual today, even decades […]
Strange habits your dog picked up just to copy you Dogs copying their owners isn’t just a cute coincidence. Traces back to real behavioral science, though not quite the theory people usually reach for. Ivan […]
10 things your kitchen is crying out for you to replace A quiet assumption is baked into most kitchen purchases: buy it once, and it’s yours forever. Nobody pencils in an expiration date when bringing […]
10 things your garage is crying out for you to throw away A garage has a way of becoming the one room nobody actually audits, which somehow gives us permission to dump in there whatever […]
“Fancy” foods that a lot of people actually don’t like Sometimes you feel forced to taste food socially labeled as “sophisticated,” mainly because of peer pressure. It also holds true that nobody wants to be […]
9 strange habits of ancient Romans that sound completely fake (but aren’t) Rome built aqueducts, sewers, and public bathhouses centuries before most of Europe caught up. That same civilization also drank gladiator blood as medicine […]
Fads that somehow survived far longer than they should have Most fads follow the same arc. They explode fast and dominate every conversation for a season. And vanish just as quickly, leaving nothing behind but […]
The most popular religion in every state, after Christianity According to the U.S. Religion Census of 2020, Christianity is still the largest religion in every state. For context, Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on […]