Image from NASA By Azriel ReShel / 11.09.2017 All photos credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran Witness the Beauty of...
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By Raya Bidshahri / 11.08.2017 The Underestimated Role of Collectivity Many of us intuitively think about intelligence...
Detail from La Liberté Triomphante (1792), showing Liberty brandishing a thunderbolt in one hand and a Phrygian cap on...
Leonardo da Vinci, the ultimate Renaissance man, is the subject of Walter Isaacson’s newest book. Pictured is...
Sailors aboard the USS Lexington celebrate crossing the equator with an elaborate hazing ritual, 5 April 1944....
For over a century, acequias have resisted the flow of water toward corporations in New Mexico and...
Afghan refugee Maimuna, photographed in Kabul in 2016. Photo by Hedayatullah Amid/Epa/REX By Wendy Orent / 11.08.2017 Anthropologist...
Jamie Thomas, AB ’06, studies zombies, language, race and othering at Swarthmore College. Photo by Jennifer Weisbord...
By Dr. Joel Alden Schlosser / 04.17.2017 Assistant Professor of Political Science Bryn Mawr College Schlosser, Joel...
Closed altarpiece. Left to right: before, during, and after restoration. A newly expanded web application provides an...
Brazil’s jailhouse preachers may not explicitly condone violence against people of other faiths, but they’ve remained largely...
Engraving of a tableau by Frederik Ruysch (1744) Etching with engraving / National Library of Medicine By Dolly...
A man taking stairs at Washington-Dulles International Airport in 2013. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA By Natasha Bliss (left),...
Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology produced by William Bally in 1832. Image Credit: Science Museum,...
Another day, another diet. Yuriy Maksymiv/Shutterstock By Dr. Melissa Wdowik / 11.06.2017 Assistant Professor of Food Science and...
By Neil Schoenherr / 11.01.2017 Senior News Director, Law and Social Network Washington University, St. Louis Malnutrition...
A massive bulk cargo ship, the Pasha Bulker / Photo by Tim J. Keegan, Creative Commons By Guglielmo...
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill, by John Trumbull (1786) / Museum...
The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819), by Theodore Gericault / The Louvre, Paris By Dolly Stolze /...
The skull of a Neandertal known as Shanidar 1 show signs of a blow to the head...
Photo by Bettmann, Getty By Dr. Julian Baggini / 01.17.2017 Philosopher, Writer, Founding Editor The Philosophers’ Magazine...
The Willows Natural Burial Ground near the village of South Croxton / Photo by Mat Fascione, Creative...
John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, Portrait by John Greenhill, c.1670 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Romeo Vitelli...
Photo by Anna_Pustynnikova 11.02.2017 Everyone has a favorite sandwich, often prepared to an exacting degree of specification: Turkey...
Lithograph (1892) depicting artist’s vision of the Salem Witch Trials, by Joseph Baker. / Library of Congress...
Photo by Gonzalo Baeza/Flickr By Dr. Saskia K. Nagel and Dr. Peter B. Reiner / 10.04.2016...
The Illustrated London News (August 4, 1917) with highlights from the Hope Heirlooms sale including the Hope...
It’s hard to think pleasant thoughts—but a new study suggests a quick way to make it easier....
By Dr. Art Markman / 11.02.2017 Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing University of...
Is the California Dream still alive and well? Ivan Aleshin/shutterstock.com By Dr. William Deverell / 11.01.2017 Professor of...