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An extinction events expert sounds a dire warning.
During World War II, the U.S. incarcerated over 100,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps throughout the West.
Silicon Valley started as a Republican stronghold. How did it turn so liberal?
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Gun safety laws have a historical precedent in the 1939 court case U.S. v Miller.
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Mass protests alone are never enough.
Historian Maragaret O’Mara explains why a tech utopia was, and still might be, a pipe dream.
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By transplanting Operation Barbarossa on a map of the US, it showed the devastating effects of the Nazi invasion
It’s strange to think that something that died 76m years ago plays a role in modern ecosystems, but life is opportunistic.
The history of Silicon Valley: The rise of a technological unicorn.
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Sure, Epicureans focused on seeking pleasure – but they also did so much more.
The latest phones have more than one million (1,048,576 to be exact) times more memory than the Apollo computer had in RAM.
July 16, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the mission that first landed a man on the Moon.
“It is almost impossible to put into words the difference that Alan Turing made to society.”
New research compares the roles and political clout of royal women in eight societies spanning five continents and more than 4,000 years.
The term socialism makes political discourse difficult. Should we do away with it altogether?
Twain and Tesla had similar passions and an amusing friendship.
The global financial system is under an increasing amount of pressure to get with the times and evolve to the needs of its customers. Crises like the 2008 housing bubble’s […]
Conspiracy theories about the event dating back to the 1970s are in fact more popular than ever.
The beads are made from red-deer teeth, sourced from 63 individual deer.
The Glen McLaughlin Collection brings together more than 700 historical examples of ‘California as an island’.
From religious wars to French poison conspiracies to the counterculture, we look at the origins of Satanism.
Country music deserves better cultural ambassadors.
The Flynn effect shows people have gotten smarter, but some research claims those IQ gains are regressing. Can both be right?
New research suggests that a healthy supply of locally-sourced beer helped maintain the unity of the widespread Wari civilization for about 500 years.
“In so far as bodily movements build the brain, every movement a human makes matters.”
The lack of it can also be a problem.
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Why did government officials stop psychedelics from reaching mainstream culture?
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300 years of industrialization have boosted our IQ scores in one very specific way.
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A new Gallup polls shows the rising support for socialism in the United States.