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Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.
Scientists across a range of disciplines have helped solve Darwin’s dilemma.
The documents that convicted the infamous traitor were all kept in this unassuming leather pouch.
“Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief, and Knox the man who buys the beef.” Read the story of 19th-century Scotland’s corpse dealers.
“It is healthy and normal to be afraid of death.”
The smartest person in the world was Isaac Newton, a true polymath whose brilliance never has been, nor ever will be, surpassed.
Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written.
Can ChatGPT help you power through writer’s block?
Considering the astronomical occupational risks, life insurance was prohibitively expensive for the first NASA astronauts.
An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”
Philosophy cures no disease and invents nothing new. What’s even the point?
The zebras were originally part of a newspaper tycoon’s private zoo. Now they roam the San Simeon grasslands, growing in numbers.
God is not a vending machine, but is it wrong to treat him like one?
It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.
Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.
The debate goes back at least 400 years.
Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.
How to say, “In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce” and get away with it.
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
A woman’s name would undermine the credibility of the mission. Names of former Nazis, however, were no problem.
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.
Lord Kelvin is thought to have said there was nothing new to discover in physics. His real view was the opposite.
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.
The history of hell doesn’t begin with the Old Testament. Instead, hell took shape in the 2nd century from Mediterranean cultural exchange.
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.