A preview of the latest book by Chinese history expert Charlotte Brooks

For elite climbers, divers, and explorers, mastery can fuel an escalation loop in which identity and danger rise together.

"I continue to believe that in the long run, boys, young men will believe their eyes more than their ears."

Emily Mendenhall traces the medical myths, gender bias, and neurological truths behind hysteria, one of history’s most damaging diagnoses.

Preindustrial life wasn’t simple or serene — it was filthy, violent, and short. The Industrial Revolution was imperfect, but it was progress.

In this expert class, Kaufman explores how gendered expectations, such as boys not crying and girls playing with dolls, persist into adulthood and offers strategies for advocating for gender equality by reevaluating these societal norms.

"Virtually everything we're taught about sexuality for the first two decades of our lives is wrong."

“Even if there are beliefs that we hold that are true, if we prevent people challenging those beliefs, we will lose our understanding of why they're true.”

By designing smart systems, we can help ourselves live up to our best intentions — and perform even better in our workplaces.

People who've never been partnered tend to be less extraverted, less conscientious, and more neurotic.

Concerns about privacy and pressures regarding the physical appearance of women and their homes contributed to the failure of AT&T’s 1960s Picturephone.

In ancient Sparta, it was accepted practice for more women to marry and have children by more than one man.

Female physicians tend to practice medicine as it should be practiced: with care and compassion.

Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.

“Masculinity” has become synonymous with “toxic.” Journalist Christine Emba explains how that happened, and how it can change.

This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.

“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.

About three out of every four people arrested in the U.S. are men. That rate is similar across the world.

Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could have important medical applications, including diagnosing endometriosis

Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!

MakeLoveNotPorn founder Cindy Gallop says women need to stop giving a damn what people think.

This necropsy represents an early entry in what would become a tradition of performing autopsies to consider an individual’s sanctity.

Tikal, one of the biggest cities the Maya ever built, was home to a vast and flourishing society.

Thinkers like Richard Reeves, Louise Perry, and Judith Butler discuss parenthood and the future of the sexual revolution.

Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?

The philosophy of sex is going through a recalibration period.

There are issues with Kinsey's data, but his books revolutionized Americans' thinking about sex and sexuality.

Musical preferences are correlated with personality traits — and these connections are largely consistent across cultures and continents.

Legend holds that newly elected popes in the Middle Ages had to present their genitals for inspection to confirm that they were male.

It happens to four in ten women.