01.12.2016 Measuring Time The obelisk and Pylon at Luxor / Photo by Steve F-E-Cameron, Wikimedia Commons Scientifically, the...
Month: December 2017
What happened to the dragons? Gary L Jones/Shutterstock By Dr. Simon Werrett / 12.31.2014 Senior Lecturer in Science...
Focusing on relationships and experiences adds much more to our long-term life satisfaction. / Photo by Ben O’Sullivan on Unsplash In...
Portrait of Kircher at age 53 from Mundus Subterraneus (1664) / Wikimedia Commons With his enormous range of scholarly...
“Two roads diverged in a wood” – Frost / Creative Commons By Dr. James Fieser / 04.01.2011 Professor of...
The Triumph of Achilles by Franz von Matsch. Achilles is seen dragging Hector’s lifeless body in front of the...
‘The Escape’, artist unknown. Image credit: Adamson Collection / Wellcome Library By Solomon Szekir-Papasavva / 06.13.2017 Engagement...
Symptoms of schizophrenia and related disorders likely arise from a perplexing interplay of social, environmental, psychological, and...
In the age of social media, fears and rumors about outbreaks and epidemics can quickly spread out...
Photo courtesy of PREDICT/Mike Cranfield Two ambitious projects aim to understand when and how the next human...
An Iroquois longhouse Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 12.30.2017 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief All images from Wikimedia Commons Introduction A longhouse or long...
The body of Patroclus is lifted by Menelaus and Meriones while Odysseus and others look on (Etruscan relief, 2nd century BC) / Photo by...
“Greg is the first Native man I ever heard talk in such depth about what happened to...
By Dr. John Postill / 06.21.2017 Senior Lecturer in Communication RMIT University, Melbourne Abstract In this article...
Lives and Afterlives By Dr. Ceri Law AHRC Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Cambridge We explore the historical and...
Chromolithograph of a fruiting branch of the cacao tree, by P. Depannemaeker, ca.1885, after an image by...
The scoop on how a familiar frozen treat once got respectable folk all hot under the collar....
Argument over a Card Game by Jan Steen (1625 -1679) / Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Courtney Erin...
By Dr. Gary M. Galles / 09.30.2017 Professor of Economics Pepperdine University ohn Adams said of Marcus Tullius Cicero...
Wellcome Library Study finds people in areas historically reliant on coal-based industries have more ‘negative’ personality traits....
By Charles Eisenstein / 12.27.2017 The Gifts of Nothingness The problems we experience in our lives and...
Workers Leaving the Factory Lithograph, 1903 by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. Image courtesy www.famsf.org By Andrew Taggart / 12.20.2017 Trainer...
The routes of the four Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 1492-1504 to the Caribbean Islands and the coast...
Objects unearthed in the Andes tell new stories of societies lacking hierarchical leadership in the time before...
George Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1851) / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York...
MS Sanskrit gamma 194 / Wellcome Library Description Sanskrit is the oldest language known to man. It...
A protester faces soldiers near the Pentagon on October 21, 1967. Credit Marc Riboud/Magnum Photos By Elizabeth...
What was life in the fens like in the period known as the dark ages? Archaeologist Susan...
Today, feathers are an extravagant accessory in fashion; 500 years ago, however, they were used to constitute...
Every object in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology tells not just one but many stories. The...