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Here are 7 often-overlooked World Heritage Sites, each with its own history.

Few students will become architects, but architecture may be able teach them more about real-life problem-solving than geometric proofs.

Many of the world’s favorite records weren’t really recorded by the artist on the label.

At high tide each night, bright lights predict the underwater future.

A new generation is waiting for the whimsy and wit of Dr. Seuss.

Did a poorly understood ancient civilization somersault over charging bulls?

Transport yourself to other worlds and states of mind.

Looking up big, fancy words won’t make your writing better. But a thesaurus can help – if you use it like this.

From animated umbrellas to polite-but-violent turtle-people, Japan’s folklore contains some extremely creative monsters.

Some books had a profound influence on Einstein’s thinking and theories.

There are some undeniable parallels between Jewish history and the Big Blue Boy Scout.

For Damien Echols, tattoos are part of his existential armor.

They marveled at it.

It works better than other memorization techniques.

The gem lapis lazuli is the source of luminescent blue in manuscript illustrations.

Some games are just for fun, others are for thought provoking statements on life, the universe, and everything.

From the cosmic blast into another being’s mind, to rolling bliss or obedient mind-slavery, fictional drugs have it all.

Towards the end of his life, Francisco Goya began painting terrifying scenes directly onto the walls of his house.

Thousands of churches are left behind every year in America.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas shares the books that shaped his life.

The stories we tell define history. So who gets the mic in America?

Are you a polymath, too?

Really puts the whole “don’t give up until you’re dead” thing to shame.

A neuroscientist argues that da Vinci shared a disorder with Picasso and Rembrandt.

Minimalism, thought to be a solution to our overstimulated lives, is actually dulling our senses.

Andy Thomas, a Missouri-based painter, painted an imaginary image of Trump and past Republican presidents that now hangs in the White House.

Feeling the urge to scare yourself this Halloween? Here are seven important horror films you have to see.

The money will go to her foundation, but is the tour really in the ‘Back to Black’ chanteuse’s best interest?

Why cute images are a productivity hack

Man Booker prize winners Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft on maps that lead nowhere, plasticized anatomies, and humor across national borders.