By Barry Ritholtz / 12.02.2016 5 years ago, Boing Boing described James Gleick’s The Information: A History,...
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By Psychologist Jennifer Delgado Suárez / 11.2016 It is likely that more than in one occasion you...
By Dr. Walter G. Moss / 12.04.2016 Professor Emeritus of History Eastern Michigan University This essay is...
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By Dr. Joshua J. Mark Professor of Philosophy Marist College The Egyptian Book of the Dead is...
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 12.04.2016 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief The Army Corps of Engineers, on orders from President...
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. The scope of the victory...
The Oceti Sakowin camp is seen in a snow storm during a protest against plans to pass...
Temple of Athena Nike, 421-05 B.C.E., marble, Acropolis, Athens By Katarzyna Minollari PhD Candidate in Art History...
By Dr. Tom Stafford / 10.07.2016 Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Science University of Sheffield Putting a...
Photo by AlexD75 / iStock. Everyday heroism like standing up for someone in trouble means pushing past your...
An fMRI scan shows regions of the brain that become active when devoutly religious study participants have...
By Maria Polonchek / 09.09.2016 According to researchers across the country, experiencing awe can lower stress levels,...
Image: Massachusetts Institute of Technology From MIT News / 12.01.2016 MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed...
Water protectors on horseback at the Oceti Sakowin camp. (Photo: Reuters) “I signed up to serve my...
Black holes merging By Dr. Stefan Helmreich / 11.2016 Etting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology Massachusetts Institute...
Prayer to Thoth for skill in writing. The prayer is written in hieratic script, found at Thebes...
By Brian Tashman / 11.29.2016 On Friday, televangelist Jim Bakker urged his viewers to buy his buckets...
A team of researchers has discovered that tiny clusters of single-celled organisms that inhabit the world’s oceans...
Detail from a satirical print from 1830 depicting Humphry Davy administering a dose of Laughing Gas to...
Illustration by Todd Wiseman / The Texas Tribune Post-election criticism of the news media is on point...
12.01.2016 When astronauts are on their first test flight aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which will take them...
12.01.2016 All photos by the artist, Julia Koceva 23-year-old Julia Koceva has taken the internet by storm with...
Rally against the Dakota Access Pipeline, St. Paul. MN, September 13, 2016 – Flickr CC Licensed photo...
When can I pencil you in? / Shutterstock By Dr. Selin Malkoc / 12.01.2016 Assistant Professor of...
By Tanja Taljaard / 12.02.2016 How Can Nature Nurture You? A dose of nature can cure many...
Preston Wiginton, right, during a celebration of Second Amendment Day he organized on the Texas A&M University...
Medieval Monastic Complex By Max Adams / 11.29.2016 Dark Ages: What Dark Ages? It is not a...
Pleasure at the table, pleasure in life. Natasha Mileshina By Dr. Marie-Anne Suizzo / 01.04.2016 Associate Professor...
By Evan Sarzin / 12.01.2016 Later today, P/E Trump and Carrier will announce that 50% of the...