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This isn’t America’s first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.
The concept of burnout is nothing new. But there are ways to prevent burnout and promote greater engagement with work.
Yukio Mishima treated his life as if it were a story — one with a surprising and deadly final act.
Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.
The Assam stone jars were described as early as 1929. Almost a century later, archaeologists still puzzle over their placement and purpose.
“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
Gig workers suffer from low pay, wage theft, precariousness, dangerous working conditions, and discrimination.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
Dark matter must gravitate, so why couldn’t the graviton solve it? One of the most puzzling observations about the Universe is that there isn’t enough matter — at least, matter that we know […]
Light cannot escape from a black hole, no matter what. But when two black holes merge? They just might. On September 14, 2015, history was made as the NSF’s twin LIGO […]
“Brasilia, the biggest paper town ever.”
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions often found himself at odds with the president during his nearly two-year tenure.
After Kepler but before James Webb, TESS is preparing astronomers for the coming exoplanet revolution. There are always new discoveries and achievements occurring in science, and certain fields have experienced […]
Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, one day before the Senate is set to vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
A classic essay defines different ways to disagree, from the worst to the best, with lessons that ring true in our divisive times.
In a stark reversal on immigration policy, President Donald Trump signed an order on Wednesday that ends the controversial practice of separation immigrant children from families at the border.
In about 500 pages of documents, Facebook responded to questions from U.S. senators about privacy, monopoly, and political discourse on the world’s largest social media platform.
‘Luck’ is the wrong word. The Universe cooperated, but we gave ourselves the opportunity by being prepared. It was already 28 years ago that the Hubble Space Telescope was launched […]
Is logic an immutable, unchangeable set of rules? Or has it it evolved with time – and will it continue to do so?
Studying philosophy has had a major impact on the power players of Silicon Valley.
“The extasy [sic] of abstract beauty,” artist Richard Pousette-Dart scrawled in 1981 in a notebook on a page across from a Georges Braque-looking abstract pencil drawing. Although included in Nina Leen’s iconic 1951 Life magazine photo “The Irascibles” that featured Abstract Expressionist heavyweights Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman, Pousette-Dart has always stood on the edges, as he does in the photo, of full identification with that group.
The future of sex is here, or at least it could be, technically speaking.
To celebrate her Jubilee year, the Queen had a large chunk of Antarctica named after her; possibly upsetting the Argentinians and Chileans.
A quiet suburban street set in the leafy suburbs of Cheadle, Manchester, Northern England on Monday, witnessed a coming together of a former Leader of Manchester City Council, Labour MP Graham Stringer […]
The ultimate goal of any education system should be to give people the opportunity to find and bring to life that which motivates them intrinsically.
For the Notehall founders note sharing paid off quite well. In June their start-up got acquired by textbook rental juggernaut Chegg for an undisclosed amount in cash and stock. Notehall […]
As presented by Life Magazine to its anxious readership in 1942.
Long gone are the days when Clapham was a small, rustic village well beyond the gates of medieval London. Also gone, but less long, is the era of Clapham as […]