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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
The “scientific Buddha” and the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism with regard to science are modern creations.
The value of art does not lie in the artwork itself but is instead determined by curators, collectors, critics, and other participants in the modern-day art market.
Million Stories
With almost every shovel of sand shifted in Egypt, another artifact comes to light.
In 1995, Hubble peered at the Pillars of Creation, forever changing our view. Now in 2022, JWST completes the star-forming puzzle.
Our understanding always will remain incomplete.
Nothing meaningful is done quickly.
Who's for dinner?
Inspired by the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak, researchers created a new 3D-printed prototype of tweezers.
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.