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History & Society
Trace how culture, power, and ideas shape societies across time.
Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
This is a perversion of justice.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn't). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.
There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.
The idea that we're happier at the beginning and end of our lives is really just a comforting myth.
The crabs' blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
People living in non-industrialized societies don't get pimples.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.
The "attention economy" corrupts science.
"Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
Reading between the lines of Dorothy’s adventure to the Emerald City.
Million Stories
Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
Women have made incredible gains into STEM fields, but they continue to face gender biases in the workplace.
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.
Scallop shells have accompanied pilgrims to and from Santiago de Compostela for centuries, for more than one reason
Three reasons why a radically better future is more likely than we think.