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In an attempt to prove Christianity inferior to communism, a Soviet scientist hoped to play God.
In a world without clocks, people used common activities in place of time units. How long it took you to go to the toilet mattered.
Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.
His crime was so great, he was not only sentenced to death but his name was to be erased from memory.
How can you maximize the amount of love and happiness in your life? One of history’s greatest scientists found the answer: with math.
Dive into China’s profound intellectual legacy through five seminal texts that have shaped millennia of thought.
Because the milk was thin and had an unnatural, bluish tint, vendors stirred in additives such as chalk, flour, eggs, and Plaster-of-Paris.
Still, the author’s main argument wasn’t totally discredited.
“Conceptual isolation” offers an agreeable solution.
Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
A history of othering, experimentation, and mystery.
It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a medieval airship!
Jung thought these autonomous entities live in your unconscious mind — often at a cost.
Throw away your history books — here’s what life in ancient Rome was really like, according to Cambridge scholar Mary Beard.
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Legend holds that newly elected popes in the Middle Ages had to present their genitals for inspection to confirm that they were male.
The design was as intricate as that of modern-day, factory-fabricated denim jeans, and just as durable. The ancients had fashion.
Philosopher Lee McIntyre discusses the dangers of disinformation, how such falsehoods spread, and what we can do about it.
Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.
The region of Catalonia has been at odds with greater Spain for over 300 years. The prospect of autonomy remains a distant and fading dream.
A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.
In the 1960s, politicians and bureaucrats were formulating the Central Arizona Project. Citizens fought back.
The polymath used science to elevate his art.
Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?
Six authors, six monumental legacies, and a unique thread connecting them: a solitary novel that shines brightly.
Nero’s reputation as one of the most malevolent emperors in Roman history might be partly slander.
Six hundred years in the history of trousers.
According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.