© Gustav Almestå Losing your sense of smell takes away more than scents and flavours – it...
Month: May 2016
Photo from Old Navy ad By Matthew A. McIntosh / 05.02.2016 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Old Navy ran a...
Greatly influential on Western impressions of India, the ancient greeting namaste has since been exploited by that...
Frankenstein observing the first stirrings of his creature. Engraving by W. Chevalier after Th. von Holst, 1831....
The Starbucks Coffee at Universal CityWalk Hollywood / BrokenSphere, Wikimedia Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh / 05.02.2016...
Among voters not affiliated with either major party, Trump leads Clinton 37 to 31 percent, according to...
Novelist Ayelet Waldman and a Palestinian man in Hebron. “For most of my life, I loved Israel, I...
Silver penny from the reign of King Æthelred / Credit: Fitzwilliam Museum Aethelred II, Helmet type, Cambridge,...
Imagined view from the surface of one of the newly discovered planets, with ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1...
Bernie Sanders captured the Washington state caucus in a landslide, 72.7% to Clinton’s 27.1% – claiming 25...
Kuriyana, Swarupkathi, Bangladesh | 2015 © Md. Moyazzem Mostakim, Timur Photography. Used with permission In the Southern...
Daniel Y. Go via Flickr Creative Commons Exploring when is the right age to die. Do you...
Art history is far from set in stone. Engineer Maurizio Seracini spent 30 years searching for Leonardo...
By Timothy McGrath We spend a lot of time worrying about endangered species, especially the cute and...
Library space is changing. Penn State By Donald A. Barclay Deputy University Librarian University of California, Merced...
Grind, temperature, time and coffee-to-water ratio – nail these for the best coffee. Andy Ciordia/Flickr By Don Brushett...
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr / Creative Commons The intellectually vapid exercise of throwing wool at...
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 05.01.2016 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Bernie Sanders is speaking at the National Press Club...
Maps on the Web By Matthew A. McIntosh Brewminate Editor-in-Chief “A man of eighty,” wrote Lord Byron,...
Illustrated scene from the Aeneid, a fantastic work of propaganda by Vergil to exalt the Roman Empire...
Ameera Harouda Ameera Harouda leads journalists to the harrowing (and often hidden) stories of the Gaza Strip...
The Austin State Hospital is shown on April 29, 2016. Despite an infusion of funding from lawmakers...
Mural in old town Delano, California. All photos by Alexa Strabuk. There would be no Cesar Chavez...