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Apple Stacked Cake (Getty Images/Danielle Leonard)

A stack cake rich in flavor and folklore

Ashlie D. Stevens
Paris and Helen, c1406, illustration from L'Epistre Othea by Christine de Pisan, from the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. (Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Doodles in medieval manuscripts

Madeleine S. Killacky - The Conversation
1st November 1948: Julie Andrews as a child singer, performing on stage at the Palladium during a Royal Command Performance. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Julie Andrews as a post-war child star

Brett Farmer - The Conversation
Jacob Elordi as Nate Jacobs in "Euphoria" (Eddy Chen/HBO)

Is "toxic masculinity" a useful term?

Michael Flood - The Conversation
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Slices of pizzas with different toppings including chicken and sweetcorn, pepperoni, vegetable and Pizza Margherita (Getty Images/mtreasure)

When does pizza stop being pizza?

Ashlie D. Stevens
(T＆I studio / Getty Images)

Why is umami so hard to describe?

Maggie Hennessy - Food52
Samantha Morton in "The Serpent Queen" (Starz)

Was Catherine de’ Medici misunderstood?

Susan Broomhall - The Conversation
The audiovisual aesthetics of 2022’s political advertisements (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How to read the midterm campaign ads

Carol Vernallis
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Inventor Philo T. Farnsworth with his invention, the first electronic television (Getty Images/Bettmann)

TV's inventor hated TV — until he didn't

Matthew Rozsa
Freedom school teacher Liz Fusco with students- Ruleville, Mississippi. 1964 (Tracy Sugarman/Jackson State University via Getty Images)

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

Robert S. McElvaine
U.S. President-Elect Warren G. Harding, Portrait Arriving for Inauguration, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, March 3, 1921. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

A 1920s presidential death conspiracy

Matthew Rozsa
The assassination of President James A. Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington D.C., America on July 2, 1881, by Charles Julius Guiteau. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The president who was killed by doctors

Matthew Rozsa
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Hippopotamus (Getty Images/pjmalsbury)

The true story of the Louisiana hippos

Matthew Rozsa
Nikolaus Wostry, head of Film Collections of Filmmarchiv Austria, shows the movie The City Without Jews (Die Stadt Ohne Juden) at Filmarchive Austria in Laxenburg on November 15, 2016. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Authors attacked like Salman Rushdie

Jonathan Bate - The Conversation
Black mug with bright red mulled wine, two slices of orange, cinnamon and star anise (Getty Images/Ignatiev)

Mulled wine is an Aussie winter warmer

Morag Kobez - The Conversation
Official portrait of Abraham Lincoln, by George PA Healy (GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

Abe Lincoln: Master inventor

Matthew Rozsa
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(L-R) Nick Bostrom Philosopher at the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Sir Francis Galton the father of Eugenics (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Longtermism" is everywhere — and toxic

Émile P. Torres
Two students comfort a classmate in the corridor (Getty Images/Daniel de la Hoz)

How to respond to a mental health crisis

Matthew Rozsa
Announcer Vin Scully of the Los Angeles Dodgers poses for a photo circa 1960s. (Sporting News via Getty Images via Getty Images)

How Vin Scully scored his Dodgers gig

James Walker, Judith R. Hiltner - The Conversation
Former President Theodore Roosevelt stands over a rhino he has shot while on safari in Africa. (Edward Van Altena/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

When conservation meant killing animals

Matthew Rozsa
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Pot Brownies (Getty Images/Maren Caruso)

The true story of "the OG edible"

Ashlie D. Stevens
Salmon poke with MSG (Photo courtesy of Ajinomoto)

Where do we stand with MSG?

Maggie Hennessy
Hands holding banknotes (Getty Images/Jamie Grill)

Should you tip a kid's camp counselor?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Actors George Takei, James Doohan, Grace Lee Whitney, Nichelle Nichols, Stephen Collins, DeForest Kelley, Majel Barrett, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Persis Khambatta, Walter Koenig pose for a portrait during the filming of the movie "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" which was released December 27, 1979 in the United States. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Behind that "Star Trek" interracial kiss

Matthew Delmont - The Conversation
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