Image: R. Hurt – Caltech/JPL By Dr. Lee Turnpenny / 02.11.2016 Can a scientist ever be a...
Month: January 2018
Tommy Wiseau clutches a football in ‘The Room,’ the 2003 film he wrote, produced and starred in. Wiseau...
One of the most notorious fake news websites in the United States published a fake news story...
The image shows the locus coeruleus, which drives neuronal circuits of the hippocampus and enables novel contextual...
All too much; Ikea shoppers overwhelmed in the showroom, 6 July 2014, Beijing, China. Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty...
NASA By Paul Gilster / 04.08.2016 The human future in the cosmos could be all but limitless,...
The Changing Character of Immigration By Kate Holladay Claghorn Photo of Claghorn in 1912 Text and images from The...
Maison Carrée, c. 4-7 C.E., Colonia Nemausus (modern Nîmes, France) By Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker / 12.09.2015 Professor of Classical and...
View of the Forum with Mount Vesuvius in the distance, Pompeii By Dr. Jeffrey A. Becker / 12.09.2015 Professor...
Sutton Hoo and Europe 300–1100 C.E., The Sir Paul and Lady Ruddock Gallery © The Trustees of...
A letter in Judeo-Persian dealing with financial and family matters / Afghan Genizah collection at the National...
Henry Nicholls talks to Jane Goodall about her remarkable career studying chimpanzee behaviour, her animal welfare activism, and accusations of plagiarism in...
Dr. Michael Tomasello By Dr. Nicolas Langlitz (left), Stephanie Schiavenato (right), and Esther Rottenburg (no photo)...
Planned Parenthood supporters demonstrate in Columbus, Ohio, 2012. Over the last hundred years abortion practices and policies...
Charlie Nguyen/Flickr/Creative Commons By Richard Kunert / 04.20.2016 PhD Candidate Donders Institute Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics...
Lauren C/Flickr/Creative Commons By Princess Ojiaku / 01.14.2016 Adele’s heartbreaking ballad Hello, about a lost lover, has topped the Billboard Hot...
Robert Huffstutter/Flickr/Creative Commons By Dr. Nigel Warburton (left) and Dr. Jules Evans (right) / 01.18.2016 Warburton:...
Statue of Hume by Alexander Stoddart on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh / Photo by Bandan, Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Keith Frankish...
Ik T/Flickr/Creative Commons By Dr. Christopher Kavanagh / 05.11.2016 Post-Doctoral Researcher in Cognitive Anthropology University of Oxford...
New excavations on the remote island of Keros reveal monumental architecture and technological sophistication at the dawn...
A teacher from the Arab town of Kabul gives an Arabic class to Israeli schoolchildren. AP Photo/Oded Balilty...
Mezzofanti as pictured in the frontispiece to The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti; with an introductory memoir of eminent...
Ship’s figure-head, late 4th – 5th century, oak, 149 cm, (Germanic?/Roman? found Belgium) © The Trustees of...
By Jolene Latimer / 05.15.2017 All photos by the author Instead of sitting by her side, helping...
The Merchant Georg Gisze (1532) by Hans Holbein the Younger Jonathan Lamb explores the genre of ‘it-narratives’...
The Mildenhall Treasure, fourth century C.E. (The British Museum) (photo: Estel, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Dr. Diane Reilly / 06.14.2017...
David Composing the Psalms, from the Paris Psalter, c. 900 C.E. 14-1/8 x 10-1/4″ / 36 x 26...
Left: Nazi stormtroopers on the march in 1940. | Public Domain. Right: Racist demonstrators on the march...
Pair of Diviner’s Figures, Côte d’Ivoire, central Côte d’Ivoire, Baule peoples, wood, pigment, beads and iron, 55.4...
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in NY circa 2000. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, the free media...