Time Travel And Ice Cream

No, You Don’t Want To Time Travel

Douglas Giles | Insert Philosophy Here | 3rd August 2026

Physicists and enthusiasts grappling with time travel have extensively pondered and debated complex questions of relativity, spacetime, energy and even whether time is real outside human perception. Time may be the fourth dimension, but what about the first three dimensions? Moving through time also means moving through space, which presents many insurmountable challenges — explained here (1,300 words)

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The Golden Age Of British Ice Cream

Ruby Tandoh | Vittles | 3rd August 2026

…began with a question: how to package the ice cream cone in a way that it could withstand getting knocked around in a freezer but also melt in one’s mouth? After years of experimentation, the Cornetto made its debut in the British corner shop in the summer of 1976, one of the hottest summers on record. That was the beginning of a fifteen-year run that launched Mini Milks, Twister and Magnum (4,500 words)