Just got off a ship. Almost 7,000 people on board. This did not happen to us:

The comments immediately tear into Fox News and start debating whether Christianity's influence as irrevocably waned. While I was on the ship I avoided the internet entirely.

It was nice.

The cruise began with the usual safety drill. No longer do you go to the deck where your lifeboat hangs above, sweating in your lifejacket; now you sit in a big theater and see a movie about safety procedures, which of course you forget immediately. But there's also a segment on washing your hands, and some people on the cruise balked a bit at the infantilization this implies. Speak to me like a grown-up, for Poseidon's sake.

But it is cute. Wash your hands!

SCIENCE! Why Conventional Wisdom about 8-hour sleep needs are preposterous: here. You may think "that's interesting; is there science involved?" Yes. But then you look skeptical and say "there might be studies and data, but I prefer such pieces to be preceded by several paragraphs of personal observations with no relevance to my own life, but seem to reinforce the modern trend to personalize everything at the expense of the reader." Then this is for you.

HISTORY Roman silver on display. It's not a new discovery:

Worth it for the statue of Mercury. It's oddly proportioned. The head is huge. It's possible that archeologists are wondering about the religious meanings behind the enormous cranium, but it's also possible the sculptor did a poor job, and everyone laughed at old Marcus Philiistinus. He was so proud of that stupid thing.