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The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species.” The remains of these unknown creatures often puzzled their discoverers.
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Nike athlete and famed Peloton instructor Tunde Oyeneyin shares how she turned her pain into purpose.
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Many countries’ histories are governed by the familiar demographic story of growth, industrialization, and decline. But not France.
Chloé Valdary — founder of Theory of Enchantment — explores two essential practices for generating the team “magic” that drove Apple under Steve Jobs.
Just a small gesture or a thoughtful comment can often alter a situation, or people’s perceptions of it, in ways that relieve tensions and make them feel appreciated and included.
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
A 19th-century surveying mistake kept lumberjacks away from what is now Minnesota’s largest patch of old-growth trees.
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
While Taoism can be paradoxical and abstract, it also offers daily life lessons.
What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
Since 1962, humanity has been sending messages into space with the intent to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Are those efforts worth the risks?
If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?
Measurements of the acceleration of the universe don’t agree, stumping physicists working to understand the cosmic past and future. A new proposal seeks to better align these estimates — and is likely testable.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
Defamiliarization is a common tool in the arts. Here we learn how seeing things from a different angle can lead to billion-dollar success.
Rejecting romanticism, these famous paintings depict war as it really is: sadistic and senseless.
His career helped define humanity’s place in the world by bringing us “a little closer” to our ape relatives.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
While Costco warehouses may remind shoppers of Walmart, this membership-only retailer has a business model that more closely resembles Amazon or Netflix.
“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”
Science cannot help us understand or describe first-person experience. Zen koans are a powerful form for helping us reach that description.
An un-crewed sailing drone discovered the unusually shaped, slumbering seamount.
Virtually anyone can now create convincing deepfakes. That doesn’t mean you should.
It’s like combining Google Translate with a time machine.
Dive into China’s profound intellectual legacy through five seminal texts that have shaped millennia of thought.