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If someone can make you feel insecure, incomplete, and inadequate, they then can present themselves as the solution you need.
People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species.” The remains of these unknown creatures often puzzled their discoverers.
Digital analyses of Enlightenment-era letters are teaching us a thing or two about Locke, Voltaire, and others.
The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
People engage in creative thinking every day, whether they realize it or not.
Progress got derailed somewhere between indoor plumbing and the flying car. Why?
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.
Some would say AI is immortal and all-knowing — Godlike, even.
From forecasting stock prices to diagnosing disease, Swarm AI enables better group decisions.
A new study says the reason cave paintings are in such remote caverns was the artists’ search for transcendence.
So far, two papers have been retracted, and a third is under investigation. Accusations of plagiarism appear convincing.
Since dark matter eludes detection, the mission will target sources of light that are sensitive to it.
The 1,200-year-old “Book of Ingenious Devices” contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.
“Carpe diem” was only one part of Horace’s poem Odes 1.11.
The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
There are dozens of learning and development conferences to choose from each year. Here are 10 of the most popular, along with what makes them unique.
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
Our intuitive understanding of time is very different from a physicist’s understanding of time. How do we reconcile these views?
An influential series of books argues that the history of the world is the history of generations. Is it right?
Your whole body is part of the instrument.
Thanks to a couple of rovers, we know Mars was once blue.
The “first cause” problem may forever remain unsolved, as it doesn’t fit with the way we do science.
The benefits of learning with guidance are clear — but the expert and the novice must have a shared understanding of the goal.
Once at the pinnacle of Amsterdam’s art scene, Rembrandt van Rijn eventually found himself outcompeted by his own students.
To answer that question, we may have to figure out when the famed painter started to go bald.
For many years, some cosmologists embraced the idea of an eternal, steady state universe. But science triumphed over philosophical prejudice.
There are several different types of learner engagement, from emotional to cognitive. Here’s how to improve each.
Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.