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Why not just divide the United States in slices of equal population?
She was walking down the forest path with a roll of white cloth in her hands. It was trailing behind her like a long veil. It was sweeping needles, leaves […]
Nazi supporters held huge rallies and summer camps for kids throughout the United States in the 1930s.
Rare structures and artifacts of the Viking religion practiced centuries prior to Christianity’s introduction have been uncovered by archaeologists in Norway, including a “god house.”
Researchers found a common element in the destruction of even the most powerful empires.
Scientists have identified the largest ever assemblage of mammoth bones.
Law professor Ganesh Sitaraman explains why America has never achieved true democracy—and how it can.
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It’s hard to stop looking back and forth between these faces and the busts they came from.
Confirmation bias is baked into the DNA of America, but it may soon be the nation’s undoing.
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In fact, the maximum human lifespan has barely changed since we arrived.
Alexandre Dumas’ famous anecdote about Fake News in the 1800s has a surprising twist.
How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.
They came from different places and with different ideas, which still resonate today.
Scientists have found evidence of hot springs near sites where ancient hominids settled, long before the control of fire.
Join Radiolab’s Latif Nasser at 1pm ET today as he chats with Malcolm Gladwell live on Big Think.
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“The results change the perception of who a Viking actually was,” said project leader Professor Eske Willerslev.
In his new book, “American Rule,” Jared Yates Sexton hopes to overturn a centuries-long myth.
The major temples seem much more interesting than what also appears on the landscape: apparently random mounds of earth.
Researchers figure out the average temperatures of the last ice age on Earth.
Researchers figure out the function of mysterious heart structures first described by da Vinci.
A man’s skeleton, found facedown with his hands bound, was unearthed near an ancient ceremonial circle during a high speed rail excavation project.
Most of Stonehenge’s megaliths, called sarens, came from West Woods, Wiltshire.
Archaeologists suggest this may have been the Americas’ “oldest hotel.”
Addiction is not a moral failure. It is a learning disorder, and viewing it otherwise stops communities and policy makers from the ultimate goal: harm reduction.
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The discovery pushes back humanity’s history with domestication.
Mapping the frequency of common toponyms opens window on Britain’s ‘deep history’.
Monuments are under attack in America. How far should we go in re-examining our history?
Artifacts uncovered in southeast Asia offer clues on early complex human cultures.
New book focuses on some of the world’s most peculiar borderlines.
Researchers discover a massive ceremonial structure of the ancient Mayans using lasers.