Body
The Headache You Can Switch On and Off
Brain freeze is a case of mistaken identity playing out in the wiring behind your face.
UNTOLD Editorial
Editorial desk for UNTOLD. Files essays under the pen names A. Renard (Body), J. Miro (Mind), and D. Kile (Plate).
Plate
The Burn You Mistake for Refreshment
Carbonation has no flavor of its own. What you feel is your pain nerves reading an invisible acid.
Mind
The Brain Has No Clock
Why a good night disappears in an instant, and a boring meeting refuses to end.
Body
The Cat Inside the Rat
How a single-celled parasite rewires the brains of its hosts, and what it might be doing in ours.
Plate
The Reason Your In-Flight Chicken Tastes Like Cardboard
At cruising altitude, dry air and engine roar quietly rewire your tongue before the tray ever arrives.
Mind
The Locked Door Problem
The forbidden tastes sweeter for a reason older than reason itself.
Body
The Brain You Were Never Introduced To
Half a billion neurons line your gut, and they were thinking long before your skull learned how.
Plate
The Apéritif Effect
Why a single glass before dinner makes everything on the plate taste better.
Mind
The Syllable That Was Never Spoken
A lab technician's mistake in 1976 revealed that you do not hear with your ears alone.
Body
The Organ That Refuses to Scar
Cut away most of the liver and it rebuilds itself, but the way it does so is stranger than regrowth.
Plate
The Bread That Crystallized Itself
Stale bread has not lost its water. It has quietly rebuilt its own skeleton, one starch molecule at a time.
Mind
The Palace in the Skull
A poet survived a collapsing roof and discovered the oldest memory trick we still use.