In an effort to ease the intense pressure that its students face in China’s notoriously rigid exam-based education...
Day: February 7, 2017
In contrast to Western Europeans, new research finds contemporary East Asians are genetically much closer to the...
By Dr. Melissa J. Armstrong / 02.06.2017 Assistant Professor of Neurology University of Florida Politicians and policymakers...
When one undertakes to administer justice, it must be with an even hand, and by rule; what...
Tomb (of the Funeral Bed?), 470-60 B.C.E., found in the necropolis of Tarquinia (Villa Giulia, Rome) Author...
Photograph of Karl Marx, by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 1875 / International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam,...
William James Bennett, “View of South Street, from Maiden Lane, New York City,” ca. 1827 / Metropolitan...
By Dr. Malini Suchak / 02.01.2017 Assistant Professor of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation Canisius College “Thank...
Clouds pouring from the volcano on Krakatoa (aka Krakatau or Rakata) in south western Indonesia during the...
Children in the Russian Famine of 1946-1947 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum / 09.24.2015 Professor...
The ancient Roman city of Ostia was in antiquity situated at the mouth of the river Tiber,...
Judeo-Spanish: A Dying Language By Dr. Haïm Vidal Séphiha / 1997 Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Université Paris...