Long before tobacco arrived from the Americas, ancient civilizations in the Old World were getting high off hemp smoke and opium.
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Words of wisdom from H.P. Lovecraft, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dr. Temple Grandin, Hannah Gadsby and more.
Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.
Searching for truth in unorthodox ways can be a valuable exercise. But Anatoly Fomenko’s alternate world history is just plain weird.
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
We only detected our very first gravitational wave in 2015. Over the next two decades, we’ll have thousands more.
From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.
The original principle of relativity, proposed by Galileo way back in the early 1600s, remains true in its unchanged form even today.
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.
Almost 100 years ago, an asymmetric pathology led Dirac to postulate the positron. A similar pathology could lead us to supersymmetry.
For some philosophers, hope is a second-rate way of relating to reality.
Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
We are traveling in a realm that once exclusively belonged to the gods. Space travel will force humanity to rethink everything.
For centuries, the only way to travel between the Old and New World was through ships like the RMS Lusitania. Experiences varied wildly depending on your income.
New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.
Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.
The role of the Devil’s advocate was to argue against the beatification of mystics. Contrary to popular belief, they did not wear Prada.
No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.
When was the last time you spent some quality time with yourself?
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
Human beings are descendants of these early tetrapods – at least those who made a new life on land.
Love him or hate, Karl Marx redefined geopolitics and shook up the world order.
If nature were perfectly deterministic, atoms would almost instantly all collapse. Here’s how Heisenberg uncertainty saves the atom.
The author of classics like “A Farewell to Arms” and “The Sun Also Rises” is known and loved for his simple yet effective writing style. Here’s how to imitate it.
His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.
While there is more to North Korean cinema than meets the eye, the country’s film industry ultimately amounts to little more than a mouthpiece for the ruling Kim dynasty.
In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed “Baker-Miller Pink.”
The matter that creates black holes won’t be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
The meaning of the cryptic text has eluded scholars for centuries. Their latest efforts include computational analyses seeking new insights into the medieval enigma.