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In her 2020 book, “The Alchemy of Us,” Ainissa Ramirez explores how important material inventions shaped the course of human experience.
In America, Cup Noodles has succeeded by hiding its Japanese roots.
It’s that time of year when the hours of meticulous wrapping of Christmas toys are viciously undone in seconds by tiny children.
Just as storylines make sense only when you have the context of the beginning and the end, listeners need to understand the impetus for why the album was even made.
The number of people with whom we interact is highest around 40, but then things change substantially after that.
For such a near-universal concept, the definition of “heroism” is difficult to pin down.
Hit shows are like societal mirrors, capable of reflecting the cultural zeitgeist whose likeness they try to record.
The metaverse has the potential to be revolutionary, for both good and bad. Here is how we can maximize the former and prevent the latter.
Role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons offer a valuable insight: Life is about shifting labels.
The singer-songwriter distilled the essence of the holidays into a hit song, and for her efforts she was crowned the Queen of Christmas.
Roughly half the world population, including in America, has insufficient levels of vitamin D. UV irradiated mushrooms can help.
What value does wit hold in genres defined by brute strength?
Released in 1972, “Ways of Seeing” has proven to be as worthy of study as the artistic traditions it investigates.
Why does hearing sad music feel so good?
Washington believed that particular Thanksgiving in 1789 was a crucial occasion.
When we are more focused on the good things we enjoy in life, we have more to live for.
A chemist explains the real reason your family dinner is such a risky ordeal.
The modern antiracist movement is harming the very people it claims to help, according to the linguist John McWhorter.
The decades-long conflict is best understood not through secondhand accounts of historians, but the primary accounts of people who actually experienced it.
The most momentous and significant events in our lives are the ones we do not see coming. Life is defined by the unforeseen.
The German thinker wrote both treatises and songs. He approached each form of expression with the same level of interest.
Discover the history of homemade sugar skulls, home altars, and fantastical spirit animals.
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 […]
There’s more to miracles than turning water into wine.
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.
Haunting photographs depict the dead as “still with us.”
The most unpleasant aspect of intellectual liberalism is that when speech causes emotional or mental pain, the offended parties are morally entitled to nothing.