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In a world without clocks, people used common activities in place of time units. How long it took you to go to the toilet mattered.
In work and life, the rules of success are being redefined.
Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.
Just 12% of Americans account for half the country's total beef consumption.
The best answer we have is, "Life is matter with intentionality."
Legally smoking joints in city centers will require alertness and a keen sense of orientation — two things stoners are not known for.
Dive into China's profound intellectual legacy through five seminal texts that have shaped millennia of thought.
In Georgia, it's becoming less common to pronounce words like "prize" as "prahz."
A "stakehodler" has both a voice and a vote, an economic interest in how each network stewards important global resources.
Because the milk was thin and had an unnatural, bluish tint, vendors stirred in additives such as chalk, flour, eggs, and Plaster-of-Paris.
Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.
John Templeton Foundation
There are issues with Kinsey's data, but his books revolutionized Americans' thinking about sex and sexuality.
Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.
Will you die when your body dies?
An enormous amount of antimatter is coming from our galactic center. But the culprit probably isn't dark matter, but merely neutron stars.
To put things in perspective, the cost of sequencing a single genome in 2012 was around $10,000.
Spend well, save well, live well.
Still, the author's main argument wasn't totally discredited.
"Conceptual isolation" offers an agreeable solution.
Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
A history of othering, experimentation, and mystery.
Technology goes in directions we can never predict — so we must be prepared to limit the spread of unintended consequences.
Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a medieval airship!
A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby Universe, dating all the way back to the Big Bang.
This is especially true for three key groups.
The matter that creates black holes won't be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it's everywhere.