According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky’s talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.
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These studies are only the tip of the iceberg, with adverse consequence of the time change ranging from student test scores to stock market returns.
The creator of the index called it a public utility for accessing the “vast ocean” of human knowledge.
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
Big dreams and big telescopes are back at last, but everything depends on sufficiently funding NASA, the NSF, and the DOE.
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.
Looking with lasers, researchers discovered that many Olmec and Mayan ruins seem to have been constructed from the same blueprint.
Our moral attitudes about sex and drugs share a genetic basis, suggests a recent study that examined the attitudes of more than 5,000 twins.
There’s a big difference between the notions of ‘false vacuum’ and ‘true vacuum’ states. Here’s why we don’t want to live in the former.
We pretend to be in control, but we have frighteningly little knowledge upon which to base our life’s decisions.
Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.
The “Euro Night Sprinter” map is utopian, but Europe’s rail future could look a lot like it.
The highest earning Myers-Briggs personality type? ENTJ.
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It’s got to be God.
The ability to differentiate your emotions might make you less likely to suffer from depression, alcoholism, and anger issues.
Discover the history of homemade sugar skulls, home altars, and fantastical spirit animals.
Before Herbert came along and wrote Dune, few if any sci-fi stories were set in fully realized universes.
Growing up in the United States, I remember on Halloween my mother used to say, “Honey, this is not just a day for costumes and candy. You must also remember […]
In 2006, Pluto was demoted in a very controversial decision. Unless you ignore nearly all of planetary science, it’ll never be one again.
There’s more to miracles than turning water into wine.
A 12-year study shows that these large lemurs have a sophisticated sense of rhythm.
One hypothesis says that sleep helps “clean” the brain of damaged molecules and toxic proteins.
Frank Herbert’s “Dune” refers to a religious desert people who are desperate for a savior to overthrow an evil empire. Sound familiar?
Our Sun will continue to grow, becoming a red giant and then a planetary nebula. Here’s how large it will get.
A marketing professional decided to think creatively and create a resume-bot. It helped him land 14 interviews and 11 job offers.
Fear is one of the oldest and most powerful emotions known to man, so it should come as no surprise that horror stories are as old as storytelling itself.
Today, alcohol is as important as candy to the Halloween economy.
The mad dog’s bite caused a hideous metamorphosis, which transformed its human victim into a nefarious monster.
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.