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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
Engineer James Clarke liberated John, Paul, George, and Ringo from their mono and stereo straitjackets using algorithms at Abbey Road.
If we're going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet, creating the Perseids. 2023's show will be magnificent!
While the steep rise of inequality in the United States is well-known, long-run data on the incomes of the richest shows countries have followed a variety of trajectories.
From the laying out of the body plan to the organization and functioning of our nervous system, cells rule gene expression and make us who and what we are.
If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.
Even with the quantum rules governing the Universe, there are limits to what matter can withstand. Beyond that, black holes are unavoidable.
What better explains the prevalence of heavy metal in Scandinavian countries: culture or economy?
There are two types of missing, or "dark" matter: baryonic (made of normal matter) and non-baryonic. Have we finally found the normal stuff?
His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.
These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.
A primer on Judith Butler’s theory of gender and performativity.
These clocks burn powdered incense along a pre-measured paths, each representing a different amount of time.
Great writing can unveil the criminal psyche better than any other artistic medium.
Those white, marble statues you see in museums all over the world were originally painted with bright colors.
The strange case of cultured ultra-thief Stéphane Breitwieser — who claims “art is my drug” — has divided opinion. Is it Stendhal syndrome?
The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.
Our state of extreme social interconnectedness has rapidly accelerated the rollercoaster pace at which societal confidence may collapse.
Mounted on horses and armed with unique, powerful bows, the archers of Genghis Khan inspired terror wherever they rode.