Once a cosmopolitan faith, Islam valued intellectualism and modernity. It was derailed by various geopolitical and religious forces.
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An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
The Bolsheviks may have created Ukraine’s current borders, but that doesn’t mean dismantling them is good for today’s Russia.
Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.
Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.
Many first-hand accounts from the golden age of piracy were grossly embellished, meaning it’s extremely difficult to separate Blackbeard the legend from Edward Thatch the person.
Whenever the climate cooled, our hominin ancestors would set up shop in the Arabian Peninsula and vanish again when the planet warmed up.
We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
The road to happiness is indirect and full of frustration.
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Why does Seattle continue to be a place that nurtures the development of breakthrough technologies but not Minneapolis, Memphis, or Minsk?
You can’t control external threats, but you can manage how you prepare and respond to the risk.
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The Taupo volcano was responsible for one of the most violent eruptions on record.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.
“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.
Anxiety can be good or bad. It turns out that it’s really up to you.
To date, only one research vessel has ever encountered a milky sea.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth’s fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.
You’ve spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that’s ok; your value is greater than you realize.
How do these little beasties detect light anyway?
The unique light signatures of nautical beacons translate into hypnotic cartography.
When we try to recreate simpler versions of natural ecosystems, we invariably make mistakes, argues author and biologist Rob Dunn.
Preferring “bases not places,” the U.S. does not really resemble the empires of old.
Did you know that American politics has become polarized? Shocking news, we know, but in case your news feed wasn’t evidence enough, Pew Research Center has been tracking the phenomenon […]
Opponents of 19th-century American imperialism were not above body-shaming the personification of the U.S. government.
The Earth is not flat. Here’s how you can prove it.
Everybody wins, everybody loses, or something in between.