Covid pummeled small businesses already hamstrung. On Small Business Saturday, it’s a day not only to shop small...
Month: December 2021
Languages, like genes, are also ‘documents of history’. Abstract Historical inference is at its most powerful when...
The public is finally realizing what antifascists have warned for years: these symbols are rooted in American...
Ancient epic poetry and modern films share an affinity for dressing up brutal deaths with rhetorical flair....
Old symbols, gestures and other images are rapidly acquiring new, hateful associations. The “OK” hand gesture, commonly...
After the Norman invasion of 1066, English went into decline as a written language. English is full...
As political parties spar, insults and catchphrases are adopted, appropriated, and reappropriated in a dizzying verbal arms...
This eerie chamber is one of several “megatombs” discovered last year at Saqqara. Twenty miles south of...
The U.S. is woefully behind the rest of the world in enacting universal, comprehensive data privacy laws...
Restoration of the 2,500-year-old temple in 2008 yielded new insights into the engineering feats of the golden...
The threat, why it happens, and what you can do to protect yourself. Introduction When you enter...
A German archaeologist deciphered the Roman amphitheater’s amazing underground labyrinth. By Dr. Tom MuellerHistorian and Author Note:...
The use of social media monitoring products by police raises serious concerns a threat to First Amendment...
Children are very impressionable, and everything they do, get and are taught shapes them as an individual,...
If your livelihood is teleworking, you could have problems getting your permit. Consulates have become strict about...
The Periplus is an astonishing record of travel and trade in the ancient world. Introduction The Periplus of...
A possible path for energy use and CO2 emissions in 2021 and the many factors that could...
Melville’s epic novel about life aboard a wayward whaling ship holds lessons for today. Introduction As an environmental...
Total U.S. renewable energy production and consumption reached record highs in 2020. Introduction What Is Renewable Energy?...
The flamboyant big-cat aficionados of the Gilded Age weren’t strangers to fierce competition, threats, and bizarre drama....
The US is generating more electricity than ever from wind and solar power – energy storage technologies...
Early Neolithic salt production dates to approximately 6,000 BCE. Introduction Salt, also referred to as table salt...
Organizers take to the streets to call on Big Pharma to halt its assault on popular reforms...
Pepper cultivation began thousands of years ago in India, where it was native. Introduction Since antiquity, pepper has always...
The pharmaceutical industry targeted key lawmakers to thwart attempts to contain drug costs. By Victoria Knight, Rachana...
The spice trade ushered in an age of European domination and colonialism in the East. Introduction The spice...
Drug industry lobbyists are “urging Republican senators to scuttle the drug-pricing language”. The pharmaceutical industry and its allies...
Workers had moved from farms to factories and from country to city and European immigrants had flocked...
New momentum in the continuing march toward a more equitable society. Introduction In 2011, Venus Colley-Mims found...
If the Fair’s ideas about art and capitalism failed to take hold, its messages about race and...