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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
"Conceptual isolation" offers an agreeable solution.
Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
A history of othering, experimentation, and mystery.
Technology goes in directions we can never predict — so we must be prepared to limit the spread of unintended consequences.
Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a medieval airship!
A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby Universe, dating all the way back to the Big Bang.
This is especially true for three key groups.
The matter that creates black holes won't be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it's everywhere.
Dive into seven texts that continue to shape Western philosophy, from ancient Mesopotamia to Greece's brightest minds.
The mountain can generate lenticular clouds, which may contribute to its supernatural reputation.
Over a third are worried that vaccines can cause "canine autism."
Jung thought these autonomous entities live in your unconscious mind — often at a cost.
A relatively new interpretation of quantum mechanics asks us to reimagine the process of science itself.
Legend holds that newly elected popes in the Middle Ages had to present their genitals for inspection to confirm that they were male.
Looking at our planet with post-Copernican eyes has the power to change how we relate to it and each other.
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
The design was as intricate as that of modern-day, factory-fabricated denim jeans, and just as durable. The ancients had fashion.
Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.