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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That's the best thing that ever happened to us.
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
It's on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
"All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
The larger truth on the streets is that no one uses just one drug anymore.
Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.
The word “turkey” can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.
Airports are like mini-cities: they have places of worship, policing, hotels, fine dining, shopping, and mass transit.
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?
It is humanity's biggest step yet into the Solar System.
The history of money is a history of convenience, and spending has never been easier than it is today.
Million Stories
Is science for everyone, or just the morally upright?
Population growth is driven by three changes: Fertility, mortality, and migration.
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
You don't have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
