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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
The crabs' blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
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Expert Matthew Ball explains how the Metaverse is a golden opportunity to fix the internet.
People living in non-industrialized societies don't get pimples.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.
The "attention economy" corrupts science.
"Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
The U.S. military once used Google’s tech without their employees knowing. Anna Butrico explains the complicated history behind “Project Maven.”
Reading between the lines of Dorothy’s adventure to the Emerald City.
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Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
Women have made incredible gains into STEM fields, but they continue to face gender biases in the workplace.
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.
Scallop shells have accompanied pilgrims to and from Santiago de Compostela for centuries, for more than one reason
Three reasons why a radically better future is more likely than we think.
We could even benefit from more whataboutisms — if they're used properly.
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
Americans are more willing to put the greater good above their own interests today than in the 1950s.
On New Year's Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific steamliner sailed into history. Or did he?