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🧛‍♂️ 7 facts about Dracula, mammoths and bad bosses
Today’s newsletter covers ancient wine, Ice Age diets, toxic leadership, Hollywood ageism, foreign workers in China and why singing at work may be more…
 • Elia Kabanov
🐟 7 alarming things I learned about urban rivers
A local river may look like a place for water, ducks and the occasional shopping trolley, but then river expert Lawrence Beale Collins explained what…
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🪶 9 reasons herons are much stranger than they look
I thought I knew what a heron was: a tall bird with a long beak that stands in water and always looks judgemental.
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🩹 7 facts I learned this week
Today’s list explains why peeling tape is basically a tiny sonic boom and how Ryan Gosling’s fox cardigan became the latest knitwear obsession.
 • Elia Kabanov
🌐 A proposal that changed everything
When Tim Berners-Lee, a 33-year-old software engineer, submitted his proposal to CERN management for what would become the World Wide Web, he opened…
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☕️ 9 facts I learned this week
As you may have noticed, this newsletter has range. Today’s edition, for instance, takes us from a coffee house opened in 1654 to a survey of teenagers…
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🌴 Nobel prizes, grapefruit and camouflage: Things I learned on a Caribbean cruise
I’m back from my Caribbean cruise on board the MV Britannia with a list of facts I learned along the way. For a science writer, even a holiday turns…
 • Elia Kabanov
⚱️ How do you mix up two giant pharaohs?
This week, a behind-the-scenes look at a story that started with a statue and ended with me correcting National Geographic.
 • Elia Kabanov
🍄 13 things I learned this month
This week: how a Scottish mountain was once used to weigh the entire Earth, why “Viking” may have been a job title rather than a nationality, and how…
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