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Pliny the Elder’s radical idea to catalog knowledge
Knowable Magazine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAmong the achievements of the ancient Roman Empire still acclaimed today, historians list things like aqueducts, roads, legal theory, exceptional...
'An enormous mass of flesh armed with teeth': How orcas gained their 'killer' reputation
Live Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFrom Pliny the Elder to the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, historians and naturalists have found...
Dementia was rare in ancient Greece, analysis shows
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA new analysis of ancient Greek and Roman medical texts suggests that dementia was extremely rare 2,000 to 2,500 years ago, in the time of Aristotle,...
What Is an IPA? Everything You Need to Know About the India Pale Ale
Food & Wine via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoLove them or hate them, IPA beers are here to stay. CatEyePerspective / Getty Images Originally...
We’ll Never Climb Down From the Tree House
Dwell via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWe may be more obsessed than ever with structures that refuse to grow up—even as their foundations become increasingly threatened. One of the earliest...
2,000-year-old beach house discovered during building work
CNN via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA three-year project to build a child’s playground and recreation area south of the Italian city of...
The taboo against menstruation has serious health consequences
Salon via Yahoo News· 3 months agoWoman handing sanitary pad to other woman Getty Images/Lucy Lambriex The Middle Ages scientific...
Russian River Brewing’s Pliny the Younger set for annual limited release
KRON via Yahoo News· 2 months ago(KRON) — An annual event coveted by craft beer aficionados is at hand as Russian River Brewing...
News: Kitchen Staple Reverses Thinning Hair + Slows Down Graying — For Pennies A Day!
Woman's World via Yahoo News· 10 months agoRegrow thick, shiny, healthy hair with a few onions you tossed in the blender? Yes, say researchers...
‘The Britannias’ Review: Moving Across the Isles
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoBOOKSHELF Readers are inclined to forgive a range of sins when a writer writes beautifully, as Alice Albinia does in “The Britannias,” a bewitching book...
