This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
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A sober look at a wild conspiracy theory that argues the Middle Ages never happened.
Want to write a time-travel story? Do so at your own risk.
Try writing a novel without using the letter "e."
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.
Investments in public libraries are a long-term investment in children and communities.
The Persian Constitutional Revolution made unlikely allies and enemies of missionaries, ayatollahs, the shah, and his Russian ambassadors. Its legacy shaped modern-day Iran.
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
Non-Western thought is vast and ancient, so why don't some consider it philosophy?
User-driven sites lead to user-based bias.
Without the now-obscure land investment affair, Georgia might have been a "super state."
A strange philosophical thought experiment forces us to ask if the world can be completely described in physical terms.
Socrates lived during a time when people did not strive to separate fact from fiction. So how much of what we know about Socrates is true?
Bolsheviks planned to erect a towering monument to the socialist cause, but their quixotic ideas never got off the ground.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain "rewire" itself by forming new neural pathways.
A new study shows that naming conventions will change how infants represent objects in their memories.
Reductionism offers a narrow view of the Universe that fails to explain reality.
The encyclopedia offers more "reliable" information than Wikipedia, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Remember Stephen Hawking's robotic voice? It wasn’t a robot.
Psychedelics are going mainstream. Here's your reading list.
By the time John Paul DeJoria founded John Paul Mitchell Systems, he’d already sold encyclopedias on commission door-to-door, and he understood the importance of persistence in the face of rejection. […]
How did the Antarctic explorers survive tedium in the early 1900s?
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." — Toni Morrison
Forensic cartography 101: Explain what Brasilia is doing on this map of 1920s South America.
In David Epstein's 'Range', dabblers and dillettantes are ascendant.
Global warming, the MMR vaccine, UFOs, and more are in the spotlight so far. But will it work?