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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
There's enough evidence to conclude president Bukele had no idea what he was doing.
Satanic cultists don't even believe the Devil exists. Satanism is largely a religion focused on secular humanism and hedonism.
Because Dylan “samples and digests” songs from the past, he has been accused of plagiarism. But imitatio isn't the same.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
Like his "Mona Lisa," Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.
Forget about Tinkerbell.
Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.
Many suspicious deaths of both humans and pets have been solved with the help of insects.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.
We are not yet at the point where quantum communications can be deployed to secure the internet, but we might not be far off.
If you believe that you're perfect, then somebody else must be responsible for your failures.
