books Percy Jackson and the Olympians adaptation looks not awful Grant St. Clair

History Check out this Ancient Greek yearbook Devin Nealy

brexit After Brexit, Britain may finally lose its Marbles — specifically the ones they stole from Greece Thom Dunn

cheese Meet the kitchen witch who reads fortunes in blocks of cheese David Pescovitz

david cronenberg Watch David Cronenberg's "Four Unloved Women, Adrift on a Purposeless Sea, Experience the Ecstasy of Dissection" (2023), featuring four 18th-century life-size wax anatomical models Jennifer Sandlin

art Nun's "luck-bringing" vulva sculpture becomes beacon for followers Mark Frauenfelder

nightmare fuel Nightmarish prototype of a wind-up creeping baby doll Mark Frauenfelder

television God of War is getting a live-action Amazon Prime Video series Devin Nealy

History Archaeologists find ancient ring meant to prevent hangovers David Pescovitz

fontography A bi-directional font that can be read forwards or backwards Clive Thompson

philosophy The philosophy and identity metaphysics of WandaVision Gareth Branwyn

rome Ancient Rome in five-minute animated fly-through Gareth Branwyn

books The beauty of sewers before the first flush David Pescovitz

design The hoodie is 3,000 years old David Pescovitz

Deadly colors A colorful primer on history's deadliest colors Caroline Siede

vending machines Pictorial history of vending machines, from Ancient Greece to today Bob Knetzger

stoicism Here's an ancient philosophy so simple even a 5-year-old could understand it Ryan Holiday

Weird The weird history of dog-headed men David Pescovitz

paradoxes 20 amusing paradoxes and dilemmas to ponder Mark Frauenfelder

war Ancient Greeks used snakes as projectile weapons David Pescovitz