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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.
Antibodies can start forming in intestines over 10 years before symptoms arise.
Your very own "Conspiracy Detection Kit."
Rushdie was heavily criticized by figures across the political spectrum for being offensive. People tried to “cancel” Rushdie long before that term was invented.
Today’s scary clowns are not a divergence from tradition, but a return to it.
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
One possible vision of the distant future.
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Your brain is wired for trauma. And it can be hot-wired to forget it.
There is one House member for every 761,169 people, which isn't exactly representative.
Studying neuroscience through art.
The “scientific Buddha” and the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism with regard to science are modern creations.
The value of art does not lie in the artwork itself but is instead determined by curators, collectors, critics, and other participants in the modern-day art market.
Million Stories
With almost every shovel of sand shifted in Egypt, another artifact comes to light.
In 1995, Hubble peered at the Pillars of Creation, forever changing our view. Now in 2022, JWST completes the star-forming puzzle.
Our understanding always will remain incomplete.
Nothing meaningful is done quickly.
Who's for dinner?
Inspired by the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak, researchers created a new 3D-printed prototype of tweezers.