An amazing history of the other – equally large and even more advanced – empires that co-existed with ancient Rome.

Watch this: new Amazon mini-series Fleabag, one of the funniest and most affecting shows I’ve seen in years.

Our intuition often falls short when thinking about moral choices; here’s a tremendously smart and interesting podcast with Sam Harris and William MacAskill about being good, doing good, and effective altruism.

Perhaps this is why authentic UK fish and chips tastes different? Scientists find American and British cod have different accents.

Garbo was right: research shows being alone is key to feeling rested.

“If a play can be summarized in three lines, it should be three lines long.” – Harold Pinter

Seventy-four years in, Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus” remains as essential a read as ever.

Want to learn a language? Free site Lingvist combines statistical word-frequency analysis with a smart machine-learning algorithm, so you can get fluent, fast.

Your elementary teacher was wrong: fidgeting is good for you.

Crucial football-season science: how unsanitary is double-dipping, really?