The subtext is almost always that the Western paradigm of modernity. A single model of modernity? The...
Year: 2019
Examining the centuries’-old sectarian Shia-Sunni divide. Tensions between Sunnis and Shias have been flaring up, with several...
Americans tend to prefer beers that have corn or rice ‘adjuncts,’ or fillers. RetroClipArt/Shutterstock.com The unique role of...
Archaic and classical Greek culture was steeped in spirit. Archaic and classical Greek culture was steeped in...
Warfare and terrorism have long laid waste to historical sites. Many of us may remember Syrian archaeologist...
The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1773) / National Gallery, Wikimedia Commons...
One reason why the steel magnate spent so much of his fortune building libraries across the nation...
Starting with the medieval poor/rich-topics in the Aquinian tradition of the theological economy of charity, following a...
Academic disciplines such as mathematics can contribute through community-led partnerships with Indigenous peoples. Public universities across Canada...
Indigenous people in Ecuador’s Amazonian region (the Oriente) lived outside of modern markets and political systems until...
No evidence supports the existence of haunted houses, but in a largely secular society, an increasing number...
Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific...
Could seeing things in black-and-white terms influence people’s views on scientific questions? Lightspring/Shutterstock.com Why do some people reject...
The Milky Way / NASA, Public Domain It is instructive to see how quickly nonsense claims evaporate...
In 1876 Lewis Carroll published by far his longest poem – a fantastical epic tale recounting the...
She disappears and rises back into view, covered in theory. In the year 1900, the eerily disembodied...
Flickr, Creative Commons The recent intrusion of pseudoscience into mainstream scientific literature is a cause for concern....
The spiral of Theodorus up to the triangle with a hypotenuse of √17 / Wikimedia Commons A pseudoscience is...
Mortsafes at Kinnernie graveyard, Aberdeenshire / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons When an expansion in the study of anatomy...
The vanishing of John Knight and his three companions. Introduction On June 19, 1606, John Knight ran...
Examining the diverse body of cultural artifacts against the backdrop of Mammoth Cave as a site of...
How contemporary southeastern Native writers work to repossess homelands that they rearticulate not as “the South” but...
The relationship between the Byzantine Empire and ancient Armenia was a constant and varied one with an...
Its first recorded state proper was the kingdom of Urartu from the 9th century BCE. By Mark...
The Grand Canyon was once a place to avoid. Now it’s a high-traffic marvel. Few sights are...
The social context of cloth from the Neolithic to Bronze Age as seen in the Hallstatt prehistoric...
Study has led to a much deeper understanding of what we mean when we speak of “life”....
Even within the private sector there are stirrings we have not heard in many years. By John...
Exploring the history of post-slavery labor, the harsh conditions of labor camps, and efforts to end the...
Jefferson’s reasoning centered on generational sovereignty and timeliness. It is often acknowledged that Jefferson did much in...