Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
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The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
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Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
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A machine learning system lets visitors at a Kandinsky exhibition hear the artwork.
When done right, dark humor can help us face inconvenient truths and question stifling social conventions.
The Mayan calendar is revered for its impeccable accuracy. Now, a recent excavation in Guatemala reveals how the system developed over time.
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Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.
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The use of the letter x as an unknown is a relatively modern convention.
Researchers were even able store and read a 767-kilobit full-color short movie file in the fabric.
Whenever someone waxes poetic about terraforming alien worlds, it’s worth taking a moment to consider the ethical implications of the proposal.
To answer that question, we may have to figure out when the famed painter started to go bald.
We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here’s how we know.
Some biologists believe natural selection produces animals that are just good enough. Dawkins disagrees.
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”
The World Air Quality Index shows how clean your city’s air is, in real time.
Great writing can unveil the criminal psyche better than any other artistic medium.