When I was a kid, planets were neat little balls in a schoolbook. Mercury was fast, Saturn had rings, Pluto was still invited to the party. Then life got in the way—three decades of work experience, bills, living in 10 countries, and the slow grind of existence. Now, thanks to Interstellar and a whisper from…

“War is always a failure of humanity” -Alexander Stubb, President of Finland

It took me four decades, a love-hate relationship with late-night shawarmas, and the metabolism of a sleepy sloth, but I finally figured it out. Spoiler: it’s not a magic pill, a “fat-burning” tea, or some influencer whispering “trust the process” while selling you a gummy bear (You know who you are Dr J.S 2000’s) It’s…

Everyone knows the pharaohs. Gold masks, pyramids so massive they make your mortgage feel like pocket change, eyeliner sharper than the dagger in Caesars back and curses strong enough to make Joe Pesci sweat. But here’s the embarrassing truth: ask most people who the first pharaoh was, and you’ll get blank stares or a mumbled…

The warmth of the sun in winter ✨

Somewhere in Yale’s Beinecke Library sits a book that doesn’t want to be understood. About 240 pages of carefully drawn plants that don’t exist, zodiac wheels that don’t match the stars, and women—always women—soaking in strange green pools and climbing through pipes like characters in a medieval fever dream.. Its script? Not Latin, not Greek,…

After years of trial, error, and a few awkward trips to the pharmacy, whilst in Athens, I stumbled on what can only be described as the Holy Grail of libido food mixes. Forget overpriced pills with names that sound like rejected Transformer characters—this is real food, real chemistry, and it works. It started innocently enough.…

Forget the French vineyards and Italian grape stomps—wine’s true origin story starts in China. Around 7000 BC, in the Neolithic Yangshao culture of Henan, someone left a clay jar of rice, honey, and hawthorn berries lying about. Wild yeast gate-crashed, got drunk on sugar, and—ta-da—the world’s first booze was born. Archaeologists found the residue, which…