Ha! Photo by Getty Images By Dr. Thomas Hills (left) and Tomas Engelthaler (right) / 11.20.2017 Hills: ...
Month: November 2017
Bessie Black Horn created the Many Hands shirt around 1910 to commemorate the “multiple handshakes” that her...
Apollo 11 Cave Stones, Namibia, quartzite, c. 25,500–25,300 B.C.E. Image courtesy of State Museum of Namibia.’ By Nathalie...
Andean folktales—such as those recounting deals made with merpeople in watery underworlds—are not as innocuous as one...
Various types of furnaces, 15th century / MS. 446, folio 65 recto. Wellcome Images L0032812 By Julia MartinsPhD...
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Woodinville, 2016 / Courtesy Ste. Michelle Wine Estates By Peter Blecha / 09.04.2017 Introduction Chateau...
“I’m drawn to people who don’t fit neatly into boxes,” says Professor Maya Jasanoff about the subject...
The Shakespearean Forest reimagines the real forests that our greatest playwright evoked in his works. The final book of...
Image by Kasia Bogdanska, special to ProPublica An epidemic of unnecessary treatment is wasting billions of health...
Photo from Flickr, Creative Commons By Dr. Mark English / 11.26.2017 The neurologist treating my mother’s Parkinson’s...
The Stoic Sage: The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates By Dr. Massimo Pigliucci / 08.23.2017 Professor of...
By Anna O’Faolan / 11.29.2017 The Ins and Outs of US Moving through life, we cast off...
Using social media can be a masochistic means of escaping the self By Rob Horning / 05.15.2016...
By Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller / 11.24.2017 The women accusing the Republican Senate candidate...
Gold coin showing facing busts of Nero and Agrippina / Wikimedia Commons By Amanda Gardner / 11.02.2015...
A large Late Roman settlement near Bulgaria’s Moshtanets, which was also inhabited earlier, ca. 1,000 BC, has...
To Hopi traditionalists—Hopis who practice traditional culture—the humble one-seed juniper tree has deep cultural meaning. / Photo...
By Jocelyn Mercado / 11.06.2017 The Link Between Humans and Trees Trees are considered sacred in many...
Handaxe, lower paleolithic, about 1.8 million years old, hard green volcanic lava (phonolite), 23.8 x 10 cm, found at...
Replica of the painting from the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave in southern France (Anthropos museum, Brno) By Dr....
The Deluge tablet of the Gilgamesh epic in Akkadian By Danielle Dencio / 2007 The Epic of Gilgamesh is...
By John McLaughlin / 07.02.2015 PhD Candidate in Developmental Biology Hunter College City University of New York...
Pixabay, Creative Commons 11.01.2017 Can you feel the support of the chair?” My Rosen Method therapist asked....
Artist’s concept of interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) as it passed through the solar system after its...
From Dr. Stephen T. Muench (by student Bailey Anne Cook) / 12.04.2015 Associate Professor of Civil and...
A statue of Isis, the Ancient Egyptian goddess, and a head from a human-sized statue of a...
By Gilbert Ross / 11.24.2017 How to Bounce Back from Adversity Everything in life is in constant...
Photographer Graciela Iturbide Artist and illustrator Zeke Peña talks about making comic books and bringing photographer Graciela...
Image by Getty By Dr. Charlie Huenemann / 11.24.2107 Professor of Philosophy Utah State University We all know what...
Washington University researchers were part of a team that studied findings from the Ordovician Period that produced...