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Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
Some objects were softer than others.
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.
There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
The word “turkey” can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.
Paradoxically, some do it for erotic reasons.
With almost every shovel of sand shifted in Egypt, another artifact comes to light.
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.
Forget about Tinkerbell.
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.
Cooperation was the first technology.
Between 30% and 50% of the US population says they believe in ghosts.
When the great American tradition of the road trip meets the great Jewish tradition of the deli, we get the Great American Deli Schlep.
Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.
Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.
There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.
From politics to culture, we blame “tribalism” for humanity’s problems. This explanation is entirely wrong.
John Templeton Foundation
How drugs, demons, and the search for immortality gave us words we use everyday.
Just as human beings diversified so that people in Asia look different from people in Europe, so too did their microbiomes.
Was our distant ancestor a biped or not – i.e., human or not human?
"Spanish Stonehenge" contains 526 giant stones, three circular burial sites, a quarry, and four necropolises.
