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The 1518 dancing plague of Strasbourg began when Frau Troffea stepped into the street and danced without stopping, drew as many as 400 townspeople into the mania, and later chronicles claimed some died before it ended on its own
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (274+ words) In July 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea stepped into a Strasbourg street and began to dance. Within a month roughly 400 townspeople had joined her, and dozens died from exhaustion before the outbreak ended on its own....
The famous claim about archaeologists finding still-edible 3, 000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs is mostly folklore " but the underlying chemistry that makes honey nearly immortal in a sealed jar is real, well-documented, and perhaps even stranger than the myth
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Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Seneca: "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (343+ words) A few years back I got into Stoicism, the way a lot of people do: a bit lost, looking for something that felt less like self-help and more like clear thinking. By Mal James " Editorial process Published May 30, 2026 I am…...
The reason the TV helps you sleep is simpler than most people think " it's quietly masking the small environmental sounds that would otherwise wake you up, and almost any steady background sound would do the same thing
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (258+ words) By the Space Daily editorial team. This article describes the published science on sound masking and sleep. Published May 29, 2026 By the Space Daily editorial team. This article describes the published science on sound masking and sleep. It is not a…...
We have normalised filling every quiet moment with something " podcasts while walking, screens while eating, sound while falling asleep " and the exhaustion most people feel isn't from doing too much, it's from never once letting the mind go quiet
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (1248+ words) Think about the last time you were genuinely, uncomplicatedly bored. No, I do not mean that low-level restlessness that arrives when a meeting runs long " I mean the kind of boredom that used to come on long car trips" By…...
Brain scans of new fathers show measurable changes " which might explain why so many dads describe the first year of parenthood as feeling like learning to be a different person
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (1083+ words) Space Daily Ask a father about the first year after his child was born, and a particular phrase tends to surface eventually. Not the sleeplessness, not the logistics, not the specific chaos of keeping a newborn alive " though all of…...
Psilocybin research is no longer just for hard-to-treat cases " a new trial targeted recurrent depression in people who had not failed standard treatment, and the results are promising
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (253+ words) Most of the psilocybin research that has made headlines over the past decade has carried an implicit qualifier: this is for people for whom nothing else has worked. Published May 28, 2026 The follow-up ran for a full year, which is longer…...
A genuine "once in a blue moon" event arrives this Sunday, May 31 " the only monthly Blue Moon between now and the very end of 2028 " and this one will pass right next to the bright orange heart of Scorpius in the predawn sky
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I cancelled Netflix for a month and spent the time learning Claude properly " the gap between people who use AI casually and people who actually know what it can do is bigger than I expected
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