# Curio

> True stories that sound made up

Curio publishes verified, sourced retellings of true stories across history,
science, film, culture and everyday life. Every article cites its sources and
carries an editorial disclosure.

## Sections

- [History & War](https://curio.madeda.com/category/history-war/): Wars, empires and the people caught between them — told from the record, with the gaps marked as gaps.
- [Science & Technology](https://curio.madeda.com/category/science-technology/): How things actually work, why the discovery mattered, and what the data does and does not show.
- [Film, TV & Music](https://curio.madeda.com/category/film-tv-music/): The stories behind the screen and the studio — productions, careers and the myths that outlived them.
- [Culture, Art & Literature](https://curio.madeda.com/category/culture-art-literature/): Books, paintings, buildings and the arguments about what they mean.
- [Society, Psychology & Life](https://curio.madeda.com/category/society-psychology-life/): Why people do what they do — habits, institutions and everyday puzzles.

## Machine-readable

- Every article is also available as clean Markdown at its own URL: `https://curio.madeda.com/<slug>.md` (same slug as the HTML page, linked from each article via <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown">).

## Policy

- Full index: https://curio.madeda.com/sitemap.xml
- Editorial policy: https://curio.madeda.com/editorial-policy/