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Food & Drink

How Food Is Made

Fermentation, curing, baking — the processes behind ordinary food.

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What makes bread dough rise?

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Food & Drink

Drinks of the World

Coffee, tea, beer and spirits — what they are made from and where they come from.

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Coffee is made from the roasted seeds of what?

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History

Empires and How They Ended

Rome to the twentieth century — what actually brought the great empires down.

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The Western Roman Empire is conventionally dated as ending in which year?

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Arts & Literature

How Novels Are Built

Narrators, serials and the machinery underneath the books people actually finish.

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A story told by a character using the word "I" is written in which narrative person?

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Philosophy & Ideas

Bad Arguments and Their Names

Straw men, red herrings and false dilemmas — the recurring faults in everyday reasoning.

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Attacking the person making a claim rather than the claim itself is which fallacy?

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Poetry

Figures of Speech in Verse

Enjambment, caesura, volta and the rest of the toolkit poets reach for by name.

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A simile differs from a metaphor in which way?

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Poetry

Poets and the Lines They Left

Ten poets across six centuries, and the single works most readers know them by.

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud" opens a poem by whom?

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Architecture & Design

Cities Drawn on Purpose

Grids, boulevards, green belts and new capitals: the cities that were designed rather than grown.

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Which official rebuilt Paris in the nineteenth century with wide boulevards cut through the…

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