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From literature to physics, the annual Nobel Prizes aim to highlight the most groundbreaking achievements in every field.

Really puts the whole "don't give up until you're dead" thing to shame.

Just how equal in size are the populations of Europe and North America?

Asteroid strikes and supervolcano eruptions may yet have patterns to them, but the extinctions we’ve experienced appear to have occurred at random. Throughout the history of life on Earth, there have […]

Hitler and other Nazis were fond of a strange theory that the world was made of ice.

Nothing has ever come closer than NASA’s Voyager 1, nearly 40 years ago. Last week, all that changed. “Juno will peer hundreds of miles downward into the atmosphere with its microwave […]

Think your interior decorator is evil? Imagine Hitler’s.

How Futurism gave us the word "robot," the movie Metropolis, and this map of the body as a factory.

Sleep as we know it has changed over the past few centuries thanks to the invention of the light bulb. The 8-hour sleep cycle may conflict with your body's natural rhythms. 

In 1923, during an exhibition of his art collection that would become the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania, two years later, Dr. Albert C. Barnes told an interviewer, “I am […]

Philosofro (fi - los - uh -fro): A magnificent hair nebula worn by one of the greatest thinkers of our time.

A forum where top mixologists explore the party drinks defining the 21st Century.  

As the possibility of the first female President of the United States draws nearer, we are reminded that voting rights for women, and even more so for black women, are a relatively fresh victory.

Today’s copy of the New York Times sits beside me, unopened. Most of my normal internet haunts have been ignored this morning. Why? Because I have been totally absorbed by […]

Canadian artist San Base uses cutting-edge computer technology to make his images literally dance to the music. Imagine the Yule Log video, only trippier and infinitely more interesting.

Europe has wisdom, sense, spirits and a good virtue. Yet, it appears that she disorderly managed valuable values. It is the time now to reinvent these and to work together on widening and deepening, due to believes in our prosperity and welfare.