Bible, about 1280–90, Bologna, Italy. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig I 11, fol. 248v Medieval...
Month: October 2016
Wikimedia Commons By Kira M. Newman Sometimes, regret is a deadweight that we carry through life, slowing...
By Joe Brewer / 10.13.2016 We Need a Consciousness Revolution Have you been watching the political circus...
Detail from one of Clarke’s illustrations for Faust by Goethe (1925), his own likeness used for the...
There are no gas stations or power outlets in space. That’s why NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars–and...
Indian activists from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (ST/SC) organization demonstrate in support of India’s Dalit...
By Conover Kennard / 10.13.2016 Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. still supports Donald Trump even after...
A new study tries to measure the impact of reading on creativity and the motivation to write....
Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, pictured in New York City...
By Joe Gandelman / 10.12.2016 Editor-in-Chief, The Moderate Voice The floodgates are now breaking for Republican Presidential...
By Dr. Tuomas Eerola / 09.29.2016 Professor of Music Cognition Durham University Tear-jerkers such as Adele’s Someone...
By Kira M. Newman / 10.08.2016 When we think about spending our money wisely, we usually focus...
By Dr.Sonja Drimmer and Dr. Damian Fleming / 10.09.2016 Drimmer – Assistant Professor of Medieval Art,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbX5Lad-D1Y Pico Iyer has spent more than 30 years tracking movement and stillness — and the way...
Public park in Manhattan, home to a rat population with over 100 visible burrows. Dr. Michael H....
By Dana Milbank / 10.12.2016 Washington Post Columnist The late Jerry Falwell, leader of the Moral Majority...
Assassination of Julius Caesar By Michael Parenti On the 15th of March, 44 BC, in a meeting...
10.12.2016 NASA astronaut Kate Rubins inspected the Bigelow Aerospace Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) attached to the International...
By Kyle Mantyla / 10.11.2016 Religious Right activist “Coach” Dave Daubenmire posted a video this morning declaring...
By Mark Prince During these dog days of summer, iced coffee seems to be the rage and...
The Raft of the Medusa, oil on canvas by Théodore … Cliché Musées Nationaux, Paris / Creative...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton holds a press conference on June 9, 2016 in front of the...
Too many patients – particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds – are being diagnosed with cancer as medical...
By Umair Haque / 10.08.2016 The Reasons You Need to Feel Pain Of all the great myths...
By Evan Sarzin / 10.12.2016 Donald Trump struck a blow against the Empire as early as the...
10.12.2016 When William Harrison disappeared from Campden, England, in 1660, his servant offered an incredible explanation: that...
By Krystal D’Costa It’s simple enough. You step off the curb, raise your arm, and wait. Soon...
There were 574,640 arrests for marijuana possession nationwide in 2015—outnumbering arrests for all violent crimes combined. (Photo:...
A set of 23 splits (each of them over 20 cm in length) from a single flint...
Tian Tan Buddha, also known as Giant Buddha, on Po Lin monistary. / Wikimedia Commons The Triple...