The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
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This minimalist map unties Asia’s mountainous geography, centered on the “Pamir Knot.”
The winners of the remote work boom? Utah, Arizona, and Maine. Here’s what the US’ post-pandemic migration looks like.
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A perfect map is as useless as it is impossible to create.
While cities drive national economic growth, their political geography means they cannot effectively deal with inequality, poverty, and other socioeconomic problems.
Really smart people don’t just demand intellectual engagement — they need the opportunity to learn and create something special.
Long before Christopher and Magellan, ancient explorers voyaged into the unknown and brought home extraordinary tales.
If you want to sleep more, try working less, eating better, and exercising more. Alternatively, you could emigrate to Albania.
Research suggests there’s truth to regional stereotypes in the U.S. — with some caveats.
The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi’s atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
Best-selling author Todd Rose reveals how most Americans share common aspirations for the country.
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From Hogwarts to hashtags, kids’ reading habits have changed drastically in recent decades — but data suggests cause for hope.
Why studying happiness is good for your “psychological immune system,” explained by Harvard “happiness professor” Tal Ben-Sharar.
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This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
“The primary way that people make friends is through institutions.”
Sleep less, sleep less, sleep more.
For linguists, the uniqueness of the Basque language represents an unsolved mystery. For its native speakers, long oppressed, it is a source of pride.
Reading this article would be such a millennial thing to do.
Because of their large and unfriendly neighbor to the east, the Baltics would rather be Scandinavian.
Linguistic laws are remarkably versatile and have applications in ecology, microbiology, epidemiology, demographics, and geography.
They had the technology. So why didn’t they use it?
Living at a higher elevation is a double-edged sword.
High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.
Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.
How to say, “In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce” and get away with it.
From hunter-gathers to desk jockeys, we work best when short, intense sessions are followed by lighter fare.
Cam Lawrence — CEO of international venture platform Newlab — joins Big Think Business to discuss his strategic vision for climate tech.
When leaders connect enterprise ambition with the driving spirit of activism, everyone wins.
Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
Science and philosophy seem to be separate fields, but philosophical advancements have made the world more accepting of debate and unorthodox ideas.