It’s here!! The BBC and Hulu are producing a 12-part TV series based on Sally Rooney’s Normal People and the trailer is out now
What it’s like to go on your first date at age 30
An ABC journalist sat down with her eight-year-old daughter to calculate their family’s carbon footprint and the results are eye-opening and frightening
What’s the most random fact you know?
Heartbreak potato soup (“As I slumped at the kitchen table and wept, Mum stood with her back to me, chopping and stirring, making dinner. I was mad with her at the time, of course, for not being able to look me in the eye – what did she think she was doing making potato soup, carrying on as if nothing was wrong?’)
A story of surviving an abusive marriage
In 1838, Charles Darwin proposed to his cousin Emma Wedgwood, and subsequently wrote two notes weighing up the pros and cons of marriage. They’re highly worth a read, especially love this bit: “One cannot live this solitary life, with groggy old age, friendless & cold, & childless staring one in ones face, already beginning to wrinkle.”
Turns out that almost everything we think we know about the invention of the vibrator is wrong
Goodbye Jeans: a beautiful essay about disordered eating and knowing our own worth
This Instagram thread has waged a war on boring salads (“STOP NOT USING HERBS”)
This is incredible: type the name of a city into Andrei Kashcha’s City Roads tool and it will draw you a map of just the roads in any city around the world
If you’re fascinated by the where, why and how of Coronavirus, you’ll be totally into this new Netflix series called Pandemic, a 6-part series on worldwide disease outbreaks and what’s being done to stop them (or at least to mitigate its effects)
Good luck recipes from around the world
Probably the most fun you’ll have on the internet this week
(trust us on this one)
