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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.
We are not yet at the point where quantum communications can be deployed to secure the internet, but we might not be far off.
If you believe that you're perfect, then somebody else must be responsible for your failures.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.
1.9 billion years ago, a star's explosive death created a black hole. Its light just arrived at Earth. But did it set a cosmic record?
After 70 years, "The Power of Positive Thinking" remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
You can buy over 400,000 products tagged “witch” on Etsy, from candles to spell bottles to pentagram necklaces.
Humanity is poised to pass the 8 billion milestone mid-November, but population growth is actually slowing down.
Cooperation was the first technology.
The world has improved in mind-blowing ways.
What if your best friend was an informant?
Which one is the funniest?
Between 30% and 50% of the US population says they believe in ghosts.
Living is about staying busy.