Astaroth, from the 1863 edition of Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal / archive.org Although Jacques Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire infernal,...
Month: October 2017
Gallowglass, CC BY-SA By Dr. Frank T. McAndrew / 10.25.2017 Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology Knox College...
Detail of figures from the Dance Macabre, Meslay-le-Grenet, from late 15th-century France. Ashby Kinch, CC BY By Dr. Ashby...
Telling-tales; a comet above Augsburg in 1618. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Laura Bland / 10.30.2017 Visiting...
Halloween parade in New York. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki By Dr. Regina Hansen / 10.25.2017 Senior Lecturer in Rhetoric...
By Dr. Gary M. Galles / 09.30.2017 Professor of Economics Pepperdine University John Dickinson (1732-1808) was one...
By Dr. Joseph T. Salerno / 10.25.2017 Ludwig von Mises as Social Rationalist For the most part...
The Ptolemaic Geocentric system. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Christopher M. Graney / 09.21.2016 Professor of Physics...
Photo by Jonathan Cardy / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Signe Howell Professor Emerita of Anthropology University of...
The behavior of consistent liberals and consistent conservatives is the topic of a Pew study. (Photo: Oli...
“Government-aku Law nyiringka ngarapai. Ananguku Law katangka munu kurunta ngarapai. Nganana Tjukurpa nyiringka tjunkupai wiya. Tjukurpa panaya...
Classic narratives. From Cinderella, 1950. Photo by Rex Features By Veronique Greenwood / 11.18.2016 In recent years, literature...
‘You spoke of Hope surpassing Home, I thought that Hope was Home – a misapprehension of architecture.’ Emily Dickinson...
At “The Lure of the Prosperity Gospel in the Age of Trump,” panelist Jonathan Walton (center) and...
New research is exploring how phubbing—ignoring someone in favor of our mobile phone—hurts our relationships, and what...
A psychologist mines big data on teens and finds many ways this generation—the “iGens”—is different from Boomers,...
Research shows that dreaming is not just a byproduct of sleep, but serves its own important functions...
Charlie Chaplin’s character Adenoid Hynkel was a not-so-subtle nod to Adolf Hitler. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Kevin...
Postcard of the Carnegie Library in Vancouver BC, c1905, funded by a bequest from the American philanthropist Andrew...
Holy Men attending the Hindu festival of Kumbh Mela in Nashik, India. Photo by David Baxendale/Flickr By Ariel...
By Dr. Marjorie Schuman / 10.20.2017 Clinical Psychologist “The problem is not that there are problems. The...
The Fukushima disaster exposed fissures in Japanese society that its familial politics tries to paper over. ...
By Amanda Monteiro / 10.24.2017 “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a...
The Late Roman Early Christian floor mosaics from a 4th century church in Idyrus in Turkey’s Antaliya...
Luther’s 95 Theses. Ferdinand Pauwels, via Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Marion Goldman (left) and Dr. Steve Pfaff...
Coca-Cola executives Robert C. Goizueta and Donald R. Keough toast cans of ‘New Coke’ – a product...
Illustration of hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from the neutron stars just before they collided. NASA’s...
By Christopher Martiniano / 06.16.2017 PhD Candidate in English and Art History University of Indiana, Bloomington “For...
Frances Glessner Lee working on one of her 19 Nutshells By Hillary Moses Mohaupt / 09.14.2017 When...
Baxter Engine, Souvenir of the Centennial Exhibition (1877), by George D. Curtis. (Google Books | Public Domain) By Robert Davis...