A depiction of the Second Continental Congress voting on the United States Declaration of Independence, by Robert...
Month: February 2017
By Charles Eisenstein / 02.10.2017 Are We Really so Different from Those We Criticise? Many people have...
Genetic transmission is the mechanism that drives evolution. DNA encodes all the information necessary to make an...
One of the most uniquely human abilities is the capacity for creating and understanding language....
Sputnik 1, first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 / Photo from the...
Introduction to the Fulleries (Fullonicae) A number of tiny and very large fulleries has been found in...
Replica of the Gokstad Viking ship complete with the Stars and Stripes proudly flying, featured at the...
The head bust of the Colossus of Constantine, a huge acrolithic statue that once occupied the west...
Augustus as Pontifex Maximus: head covered, wearing the toga and calcei patricii (shoes reserved for Patricians), he...
The Emperor Trajan as Pontfex Maximus on the Column of Trajan, Rome / Wikimedia Commons By Dr....
By Seth Adam Smith / 02.09.2017 Is There Such a Thing as a Fairy Tale Ending? My...
Ingenious innovation of the ancient world does not cease to amaze. Tilemahos Efthimiadis By Dr. Steven Tingay...
By Venerable Thích Nhất Hạnh / 02.08.2017 Finding Your Calm in a Chaotic World Humankind has become...
King James and Puritans at the Hampton Court Conference, 1604 / Wikimedia Commons Professor Wrightson reviews the...
Statue of Saint Martin cutting his cloak in two above the Höchst Castle’s gate / Höchster Schloss,...
Nikita Kruschev announcing the creation of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, January 16, 1953 / Wikimedia Commons By...
Epitaph for Margarita, marble slab inscription / British Museum By Dr. Peter Kruschwitz / 08.14.2015 From The...
One of a Pair of Cups with Centaurs (detail), A.D. 1–100, Roman, found at Berthouville, France. Silver...
17th Century Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer / National Portrait Gallery, London By Dr. Michael Delahoyde / 10.05.2012...
In an effort to ease the intense pressure that its students face in China’s notoriously rigid exam-based education...
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,...