My appetite is sick, for want of a capacity to digest your favors: advice from 1713 on sweet talking your man.

Home destroyed and family dog killed in fire caused by Nutella jar.

Photographer captures world’s tiniest rodeo: a frog riding a beetle.

Why does coffee make you poop? Here’s the science, confirmed by questionnaires and anal probes.

In 1979 programmers at NORAD almost started World War III when they accidentally ran a computer simulation of a Soviet attack.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: an ancient Babylonian customer-service complaint inscribed on a clay tablet around 1750 B.C.

ICYMI, Tuesday’s links are here, and include 103-year-old identical twins, a lost Sherlock Holmes story, macrophotography of dragonflies, and the “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” supercut.