It’s yet again a slightly chilly Sunday evening and we’re still in lockdown which now has taken inception-like features (lockdown in a lockdown in a lockdown). However, spring is approaching, days are getting warmer and bitter orange trees are getting rid of their last fruits whenever a gust of wind happens to rattle them. That’s enough for a smile. And now without further ado, let’s proceed to open this week’s Crate.

1. It might often seem that grass is greener elsewhere, but occasionally it doesn’t hurt to remind oneself that things could also be worse. These 12 most radioactive spots on Earth are a pretty good example of that.

2. Rolling your eyes at yet another book blurb promising literary delights by a stellar author? No fear, here’s all you need to decode the jargon.

3. Most people don’t like change. Our brains in general don’t like change. So the little grey cells have come up with five different ways to resist it.

4. What do you do when you’ve been a victim of petty theft, but you happen to live in Ancient Rome where police doesn’t exist yet? You write a proper nasty curse tablet to get even.

5. The bridges on euro banknotes are fictional in order to avoid squabbles between member countries. Or at least they were fictional until a Dutch designer decided to build a replica of them all in Spijkenisse.

And that was it for this time. Happy reading and until next week!

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