By Mary Harrsch Historian Ancient Times Whenever I see a headline that purports to label an entire...
Month: May 2016
By Dr. Peter J. Bowler Professor of Biological History Queen’s University, Belfast Editor: Paul Ziche Copy Editor:...
New Mexico Republican Gov. Susana Martinez By Dorian de Wind / 05.25.2016 Apparently (I don’t watch the...
By Ben Koerber / 05.16.2016 Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji is serving two years in prison: guilty of...
Mummy in British Museum / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Kathryn Meyers Emery Anthropologist – Mortuary Archaeology I’ve...
Using medicines to stay awake? Scott Akerman By Dr. Lina Begdache Research Assistant Professor Binghamton University For...
Among the candidates Sanders endorsed is David Bowen, right, who is running for his second term in...
Mary Lou Bruner lost the GOP primary runoff against Keven Ellis to represent District 9 on the...
Photo by Donnie Ray Jones (flickr, Creative Commons) By Dr. Marianna Keisalo Professor of Anthropology University of...
This illustration represents the best evidence to date that the direct collapse of a gas cloud produced...
Katrina Elaine Jørgensen Public Post by Katrina Elaine Jørgensen Now-Former Young Republican National Federation Communications Chair 05.23.2016...
Peter Sheik on Flickr / Creative Commons By Brian Martin / 05.23.2016 Think how useful it would...
By Mark Manson / 05.22.2016 Why You Should Stop Trying to Discover Your Purpose Remember back when...
Fr. Edward Farrugia Professor of Theology Pontifical Oriental Institute Editor: Thomas Bremer Copy Editor: Christina Müller, Claudia...
By Dana Milbank / 05.24.2016 Washington Post Columnist A generation after Ronald Reagan denounced the “welfare queen,”...
Why are some people prone to hallucinations? According to new research from the University of Cambridge and...
By Amalini De Sayrah / 05.23.2016 All Photos from Amalini De Sayrah, Groundviews The skies overhead were overcast. Strong...
Democratic U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders face off during Thursday’s Democratic debate. (Photo: Lucas...
By Dr. Thomas Kador Research Fellow University of Bristol School of Arts Originally published in Internet Archaeology...
Bernard Parker, left, was rated high risk; Dylan Fugett was rated low risk. (Josh Ritchie for ProPublica,...
By Dr. Massimo Pigliucci Professor of Philosophy City College of New York – CUNY Here comes another...
shutterstock.com By Mark Daniels / 05.23.2016 Terrorists are in the business of engaging in a kind of...
Allegra Laboratory / Creative Commons The Inquiry into Modes of Existence is an attempt to build on...
Ruin of a second-century public toilet in Roman Ostia. Fr Lawrence Lew By Dr. Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow...
Latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey found that the negative ratings for the two presumptive nominees are...
NASA / 05.23.2016 Our sun’s adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been...
By David Pescovitz / 05.23.2016 On this day, May 23, in 1934, police killed infamous outlaw couple...
Senator Sanders. Photo Source: John Pemble via Flickr Creative Commons. By Matthew A. McIntosh / 05.23.2016 Brewminate...
Detail from frontispiece of The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (1906) by E.P.Evans Murderous pigs...
Stonehenge. Photo by Thanh-Tung Nguyen / Creative Commons By Dr. Kathryn Meyers Emery Research Fellow, Anthropology Michigan...