Five More Things You (should) Know That Aren’t True.

Lemmings, the Great Wall, ostriches, Einstein, and knuckle-cracking — five things nearly everyone is sure of that fall apart the moment you look.

People Start 85% of Wildfires. That Doesn’t Debunk Climate Change — and the Arson Story Is Mostly Made Up.

Who strikes the match and what turns a match into a firestorm are two different questions. Arson is real, a minority of cases, and falling — while heat and drought quietly do the rest.

The Biggest Mask Study Ever Run Found One Thing That Worked in Covid — and It Wasn't the Mask You Were Wearing.

The randomised trials arrived after the mandates ended — and the biggest one ever run found the mask that worked wasn't the cloth one nearly everyone wore. What the evidence actually shows.

The Banana in Your Fruit Bowl Is a Genetic Clone. Its Predecessor Was Wiped Out in 1965. Its Replacement Is Dying Now.

How a Victorian duke's greenhouse curio became the world's most-eaten fruit — and why the fungus killing it now killed its predecessor in 1965.

Five Things You Know That Aren't True.

Bulls can't see red, Vikings never wore horns, and a copywriter with a deadline invented the diamond ring — five things almost everyone gets wrong, corrected in about two minutes.

One Nobel Prize. Four Billion People Fed. And the First Poison Gas Attack in History.