The mad dog’s bite caused a hideous metamorphosis, which transformed its human victim into a nefarious monster.
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Augmented reality (AR) contact lenses will project the digital world into our retinas, perhaps helping us navigate the metaverse.
One of the scariest films of the 1970s didn’t set out to be a horror film at all.
On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.
In his new book, “Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy,” former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang explores how media narratives can warp public perception of political candidates.
The more horror we consume, the harder it becomes to find a good scare. These genuinely unsettling movies should get you in the mood for Halloween.
How we handle grief largely depends on our worldview. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.
Haunting photographs depict the dead as “still with us.”
Quantum physics isn’t quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.
The list includes eleven species of birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat, and a plant from the mint family.
Technology has advanced at a blinding pace in the past 150 years. That won’t always happen.
The most unpleasant aspect of intellectual liberalism is that when speech causes emotional or mental pain, the offended parties are morally entitled to nothing.
All religions have totems, rites, and taboos that are considered “sacred.” Émile Durkheim believed society is largely underpinned by them.
The poisoned candy legend is just one way that American fears manifested: as an easily understood threat to innocence.
Named M51-ULS-1b, it’s certainly a curious astronomical event. But the evidence is far too weak to conclude “planet.”
Dedicated circuits evaluate uncertainty in the brain, preventing it from using unreliable information to make decisions.
Einstein hated “spooky action at a distance,” but much to his chagrin, quantum mechanics remains as spooky as ever.
Intrapreneurs tap into the spirit of entrepreneurialism to innovate and find personal meaning at work, but organizations need to celebrate their efforts more.
Will and Ariel Durant were praised for their ability to look at the big picture without losing sight of its little details, even if they did miss some of them.
69 percent of the global diet is “foreign,” says a study that pinpoints the origin of 151 food crops.
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here’s why terraforming our lunar neighbor is so appealing.
We are more likely to agree with someone who also agrees with us. Young children, though, only trust themselves. We have to learn to trust.
Music is often labelled a “universal language,” and according to the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, there is a good reason for that.
Prozac is a widely used antidepressant. Data indicates that the drug could be used to prevent blindness due to macular degeneration.
The findings at L’Anse aux Meadows mark the the earliest known year by which human migration had encircled the planet.
On Sept. 23, 2020, it was reported that black licorice was the culprit in the death of a 54-year-old man.
As the first Friedmann equation celebrates its 99th anniversary, it remains the one equation to describe our entire universe.
If you see a political movement embodying all of these traits, watch out.
Going door-to-door on All Hallows Eve to beg for ‘soul cakes’?
Dave Eggers book, “The Circle,” uses satire to illuminate how privacy is fast becoming a lost virtue in the digital age.