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The mountain can generate lenticular clouds, which may contribute to its supernatural reputation.
Over a third are worried that vaccines can cause "canine autism."
Jung thought these autonomous entities live in your unconscious mind — often at a cost.
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Throw away your history books — here’s what life in ancient Rome was really like, according to Cambridge scholar Mary Beard.
A relatively new interpretation of quantum mechanics asks us to reimagine the process of science itself.
Legend holds that newly elected popes in the Middle Ages had to present their genitals for inspection to confirm that they were male.
Looking at our planet with post-Copernican eyes has the power to change how we relate to it and each other.
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
The design was as intricate as that of modern-day, factory-fabricated denim jeans, and just as durable. The ancients had fashion.
Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.
Simple "nudges" to remind people to show up for court could help keep thousands out of jail.
The region of Catalonia has been at odds with greater Spain for over 300 years. The prospect of autonomy remains a distant and fading dream.
Is true equality achievable — or even desirable? Go on a journey through the strange and unsettling "Land of Justice."
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A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Art isn't a side note in human history; it's the main text.
Never mind.
Being a good leader requires emotional capital, which is one reason why many bosses are so bad at it.
In the 1960s, politicians and bureaucrats were formulating the Central Arizona Project. Citizens fought back.
Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?
Six authors, six monumental legacies, and a unique thread connecting them: a solitary novel that shines brightly.
Wherever automation rises, religiosity falls.
Do you really need a monstrous upbringing to make monsters?
Nero’s reputation as one of the most malevolent emperors in Roman history might be partly slander.
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Gravity defies quantum mechanics. What does that mean for a theory of everything?
Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.
Six hundred years in the history of trousers.
If you see life as only a source of suffering and misery, why bring anyone else into that? This belief, called anti-natalism, is on the rise.
"The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel."
According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.
The Universe isn't just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that's true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?