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Updated August 21, 2024

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This unusual ice cream has a long history.

The Unlikely Popularity of Grape-Nuts Ice Cream

This simple flavor has a cross-cultural and cross-generational appeal.
by Anne Ewbank
The cave is full of guano.

What Secrets Lurk Within a Human-Sized Dome of Bat Guano?

Deep in a Jamaican cave, scientists are getting to the bottom of that question.
by Jessica Leigh Hester
William Hughes, like other Europeans in the Americas, learned—and often stole—from indigenous people.

A Pirate Botanist Helped Bring Hot Chocolate to England

William Hughes was a buccaneer with an early recipe for “the American Nectar.”
by Reina Gattuso
Orange County ska punk band Reel Big Fish, performing live in 2013.

Tracing Ska Music’s Great Migration

A journey from Jamaica to California, via England.
by Evan Nicole Brown
Heads up!

Bwaaat! How the Air Horn Made Noise in Pop Music

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by Christina Ayele Djossa

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