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Turning away is a natural response.

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.

The smartest person in the world was Isaac Newton, a true polymath whose brilliance never has been, nor ever will be, surpassed.

“It is healthy and normal to be afraid of death.”

Philosophy cures no disease and invents nothing new. What’s even the point?

An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”

Long before the search for biosignatures, scientists imagined a cosmos teeming with intelligent life.

God is not a vending machine, but is it wrong to treat him like one?

Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.

Considering the astronomical occupational risks, life insurance was prohibitively expensive for the first NASA astronauts.

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. 

Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.

It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.

Can ChatGPT help you power through writer’s block?

The debate goes back at least 400 years.

How to say, “In many ways, Proust is similar to Joyce” and get away with it.

Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.

Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.

Lord Kelvin is thought to have said there was nothing new to discover in physics. His real view was the opposite.

While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.

A woman’s name would undermine the credibility of the mission. Names of former Nazis, however, were no problem.

The zebras were originally part of a newspaper tycoon’s private zoo. Now they roam the San Simeon grasslands, growing in numbers. 

Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.

These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.

The history of hell doesn’t begin with the Old Testament. Instead, hell took shape in the 2nd century from Mediterranean cultural exchange.

He is only out-sold by William Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.

In “Enough Is Enuf,” Gabe Henry traces the history of simplified spelling movements and the lessons they teach us about language.