Many beloved fantasy adventures take place in worlds that bear a striking resemblance to our own.
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19 rooms. 1,636 square feet. 1,800 years of history.
“The Big Map of Who Lived When” plots the lifespans of historical figures — from Eminem all the way back to Genghis Khan.
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in physics. They’re more than mathematical structures. They help describe the Universe.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly’s discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
Tighten your ‘thopter seatbelts and get those worm-hooks ready: we’re going to unpack the hype surrounding Dune, both the book and the movie.
A strange philosophical thought experiment forces us to ask if the world can be completely described in physical terms.
Total annihilation is a permanent threat.
This might help you make it to the end of Herman Melville’s 19th century classic.
There has been a dramatic increase in abuse and misuse.
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in science. But what are they? One of the major goals of science is to describe our reality as accurately as possible. […]
“Here I want to remind all of you of a fact that the U.S. publicly defines outer space as a new battlefield,” a Chinese foreign minister said.
Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.
Desperation made their family, and others, try to escape their home country.
Researchers at Princeton engineer a new type of diamond with silicon and boron that solves past issues with quantum data storage and retrieval.
Only the pyramids stand today. What did the other 6 look like?
Businesses have been adopting more diversity programs since the 1990s, but do they actually work?
Visit the place where in 1593 an astrologer and a playwright used a shamanic ritual to found the British Empire
Sotheby’s will auction off 380 pieces from Bowie’s collection later this year. The collection is “eclectic, unscripted, [and] understated,” according to Sotheby’s European chairman Oliver Barker.
Author-musician James McBride claims that James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, holds the secret to America’s race-torn soul.
The threat of territorial annihilation as a perverse incentive for the home front – on both sides
Good LORD the world suddenly seems a threatening unsettling mess, doesn’t it? Wars and plane crashes and disease and environmental catastrophe looming, all at once! It reminds me of Frank […]
On October 15, 2013, the City Council of Cupertino, California, debated for 6 hours before finally approvingApple’s plans for a new $5 billion USD office headquarters to be built in […]
Last week taught us some important lessons about fear. One is that fear is neither good nor bad. What matters is how we let fear affect us. It spurred racism […]
Interview with Jason Silva by Frank Rose One afternoon recently I spent a couple of hours with Jason Silva, the longtime Current TV host who’s been making much-talked-about micro-videos about the […]
When I struggle to wrap my head around a problem, I often turn to art to help me literally picture the big issue and, I hope, guide me to an […]
Buying California Cabernet to share with your newborn on her 21st birthday? You’re doing it wrong….
Summary: The Roman Catholic equivalent of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s “Infidel”. A luminous, extraordinary account of one woman who devoted her life to Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, saw the organization […]
Unemployment among those aged 16-29 is at its highest rate since WWII. “Follow your passion,” while hard to argue with, is clearly an inadequate career plan.