What Odysseus needed from his father was something more important: the comfort of being a son.
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At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.
He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
Singapore is a breeding ground of truly green buildings.
Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.
“The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel.”
The fellowship’s journey through Middle-Earth mirrors the modernization of the English countryside.
Intrinsic motivation cannot be imposed on a team — but you can provide the right culture for it to flourish.
Beer before wine and you’ll feel fine? Well, it depends.
In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
From smartphone envy to life dissatisfaction, the root cause of much unhappiness is that we are wired to imagine how things could be better.
But make sure you bring the fossegrim the proper offering—or else.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
The German-American cartoonist introduced the idea that Santa Claus traveled with a sleigh and reindeer.
Perfectionism is on the rise, and its consequences for mental health can be devastating. The Japanese philosophy of “wabi sabi” can help.
The laws of physics state that you can’t create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
An influential series of books argues that the history of the world is the history of generations. Is it right?
If tourism is the lifeblood of the Peruvian economy, then Machu Picchu is the heart pumping that blood — in sickness and in health.
Some fish evolved legs and walked onto the land. Right?
End of life patients face mental health challenges uniquely existential and spiritual in nature — but psychedelics are emerging as a possible solution to relieve the suffering.
“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.
500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the “Codex Amiatinus,” a Latin translation of the Bible.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
The history of hell doesn’t begin with the Old Testament. Instead, hell took shape in the 2nd century from Mediterranean cultural exchange.