The phenomenon that makes our favourite drinks bubbly is, alarmingly, the same one that causes decompression sickness in divers. Why do we still love it?
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“Brain imaging is not a very good way to test subtle distinctions [in the brain]…it’s like trying to find out something about New York City by studying New York State,” […]
Both nations made missteps, but China still has a chance to make up lost ground.
The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.
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Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.
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While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.
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How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
Joseph Campbell argued that nearly every myth can be boiled down to a hero’s journey. Was he right?
Five times in U.S. history, American presidential candidates have ascended to leadership despite lacking the popular vote. Here’s how.
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
Using peach and eggplant emojis as shorthand for sex may seem like a new thing, but Renaissance artists were experts at using produce to imply intercourse.
Rejecting romanticism, these famous paintings depict war as it really is: sadistic and senseless.
Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among its adherents.
This is your brain on work.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
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Whether in Russia or China, the secret police are defined by their unquestioning loyalty — as well as by their poor career prospects.
Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
Is science for everyone, or just the morally upright?
“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony sends yet another strong message to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
In paint form, the world’s “whitest white” reflects so much light that surfaces become cooler than the surrounding air.
In the Canaan religion, Yahweh was a lesser god, who was assigned the land of Israel. Here’s how he became “God Almighty.”
In terms of sheer productivity, “-gate” has no peer. Wikipedia’s list of -gates has over 260 entries.
After it became clear that the world wasn’t 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.