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Matt Davis
Matt Davis writes stories about science, technology, bizarre anecdotes from history, esoteric odds and ends, bleak but nevertheless fascinating environmental issues, and whatever else grabs his easily grabbed attention.
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While there's plenty to be worried about, it's important to remember that we're making progress, too.
They didn't know it, but the rituals of Iron Age Scandinavians turned their iron into steel.
Yes, a coup d'état.
Does believing in true love make people act like jerks?
Delving into the psychology of an uncommon joy.
The blood of horseshoe crabs is harvested on a massive scale in order to retrieve a cell critical to medical research. However, recent innovations might make this practice obsolete.
In the face of seemingly unstoppable gun violence, Americans could stand to gain by looking to the Swiss.
They say laughter is the best medicine; you might not be able to laugh a broken leg away, but it might help your depression.
The two concepts might seem contradictory, but anarcho-capitalists exist.
The answer can be found several thousand years ago, in the Roman city of Cyrene.
Recently, "the London patient" became the second person in history to be cured of HIV. Now, "the Düsseldorf patient" appears to be the third, with the possibility of more on the way.
Most captive elephants are kept under immensely cruel conditions. In Myanmar, they're treated differently.
Surprisingly, many of the world's most popular religions have a lot to do with anarchy.
New statistical analyses show that human-driven climate change is a virtual certainty.
Did a poorly understood ancient civilization somersault over charging bulls?
Few realize that the US was once "ruled" by a beloved monarch from San Francisco.
Numerous critics have called for the ban of the infamous instruction manual for violent civil disobedience.
For the Japanese in World War II, surrender was unthinkable. So unthinkable that many soldiers continued to fight even after the island nation eventually did surrender.
Advances in satellite imagery are shining a light.