Afternoon Tea (4/12/19)

Fossils Are Filling Out the Human Family Tree

Japan Is Among the Hardest Countries for Working Mothers. These Families Want to Change That.

The Woman Who Would Be King

How to Clean Candy (and Other Sticky Stuff) From a Pot

Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy Share Craft & Career Insights

Afternoon Tea (11/9/18)

Chrissy Teigen on Kanye, Getting Blocked by Trump, and Actually Caring About Her Comments

A Definitive Guide to 2018’s Made-for-TV Christmas Movies, Divided by Trope

Stress Purchase of the Week: A Brush Fit For a Princess

Excited for this one: Read an Exclusive Excerpt of Emily A. Duncan’s Bloody Gothic Fantasy, Wicked Saints

Rome's Heroes and America's Founding Fathers

Morning Coffee (8/26/18)

John McCain, War Hero, Senator, Presidential Contender, Dies at 81

Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin’s Plans for Midterms

Paul Manafort and Trump’s Pardon Pattern

Donald Trump’s Gangster Ethic Is Perverting the Jury System

How a Political Machine Works: Candidates Running for 21 Seats, All Unaware

A mass incarceration expert says the 2018 prison strike could be “one of the largest the country has ever seen”

Wow: Miss America: Leadership bullied, manipulated, silenced me

Why Elon Musk Is Reading ‘The Waste Land’

Hear, hear: Your Workplace Isn’t Your Family (and That’s O.K.!)

Summer weather is getting 'stuck' due to Arctic warming

Evidence in the bones reveals rickets in Roman times

Afternoon Tea (5/18/18)

This is fascinating: Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written Into Arctic Ice

The Last Ten Years of Royal Wedding Gowns

Read an exclusive excerpt of Alyssa Cole's A Duke by Default just in time for the royal wedding

Why Work When You Can Procrastibake?

The Drowning of Holly Roth

Morning Coffee (12/18/17)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

Image of Cooperation Between White House and Mueller Starts to Fracture

They are every bit as evil as you've always suspected: This Is The Daily Stormer’s Playbook

It's about time: Bethnal Green WW2 Tube disaster memorial unveiled

I'm very excited for the new X-Files.

A Team of MIT Scientists Taught an AI to Get Emotional Over Movies

Ooh: New underwater discoveries in Greece reveal ancient Roman engineering

Thylacine DNA reveals weakness – and kinship with the kangaroo

Perfect: Am I Really Planning to Attend Your Event? A Guide

Oh hi, Robin Hood.

I should pay attention this because my strategy is generally just "let it freeze": Winter Is Coming: How To Protect Your Hair From The Cold Weather

Morning Coffee (10/14/17)

In Spain, Confusion And Uncertainty About Catalonia's Future

How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets

SIGH: Bernie Sanders to deliver opening-night speech at Women's Convention

Trump claims he ‘met with the president of the Virgin Islands.’ There’s just one problem. THAT'S YOU, YOU IDIOT.

Why Donald Trump Doesn't Care About Puerto Ricans

This is good, by Jon Favreau: American Awakening

Whoa: Unsent text message accepted as valid will by Australian court

How A Venezuelan Chef Is Teaching Women To Make Chocolate And Money

Important PSA: Covergirl's Slogan is No Longer "Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Covergirl" This is weirdly upsetting to me given that I don't think I've ever purchased one of their products.

Metal detectorists unearth unique hoard of Roman artefacts

Afternoon Tea (8/16/17)

Analysis of Roman coins tells of Hannibal's defeat and Rome's rise

Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? Yeah, science, WHY DO WE? I just want it to be cold out so I can sleep again.

On the Rise of Scandinavian Crime Fiction

The Fuzzy History of the Georgia Peach

Aw, memories! HyperCard On The Archive (Celebrating 30 Years of HyperCard)

Morning Coffee (4/16/17)

Happy Easter!

Heh: Crucified man had prior run-in with authorities

The Patents and Trademarks Behind Jelly Beans

What Would Jesus Eat This Easter? A First Century Menu For The Last Supper

A hunt for medieval Easter eggs

'We are not slaves': Europe's most repressive state is re​awakening

Turkey in Turmoil and Chaos Since Purge Aimed at Dissenters

Something is breaking American politics, but it's not social media

Make Virginia Great Again

Donald Trump's New World Disorder

Ooh: NASA finds ingredients for life spewing out of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus

Divers in Italy Are Searching for Caligula’s Last, Lost Pleasure Ship

Ancient Romans depicted Huns as barbarians. Their bones tell a different story.

Afternoon Tea (4/10/17)

On the rights of women to own their own work.

The ‘mother and baby home’ at Tuam, Ireland, where friends just ‘disappeared, one after the other’

McDonald’s in Italy Embraces Off-Menu Item: Slice of Roman Road

In the age of Tinder, India’s matrimonial websites are trying to swipe right

A Visual Guide to the Fake Fleets and Inflatable Armies of World War II

Female Scribes in Early Manuscripts