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A pyramid stands in a desert with three people in front, evoking experimental archeology; a modern McDonald's restaurant is visible in the background on the right.

Science meets sweat: How experimental archaeology brings history to life

In “Dinner with King Tut,” Sam Kean examines how a burgeoning field is recreating ancient tasks to uncover historical truths.

Union soldiers in blue uniforms escort prisoners past a burning building with a large hole in the wall while smoke and flames rise, during the American Civil War.

Books

The rise and fall of John Wilkes Booth: America’s first celebrity assassin

Before becoming America’s most infamous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a magnetic actor who was beloved by audiences and courted by critics.

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Thinking

Nominative determinism: Is your name shaping the course of your life?

What do Remus Lupin, Katniss Evergreen, William Wordsworth, and Usain Bolt all have in common?

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Can you be scientific and spiritual?

Spirituality can be an uncomfortable word for atheists. But does it deserve the antagonism that it gets?

Neuropsych

How to dissolve your ego—and why you should

Ever want to move forward but find you’re in your own way?

Surprising Science

Beer Archaeologist: How Alcohol Shaped Our Civilization

Professor Patrick McGovern, a world authority on ancient alcoholic beverages, describes how alcohol had a profound effect on early societies.

Myself as a Commonwealth: Notes on the Science of Self

We imagine our view of the world like a painting from the Realism movement – rife with detail and comprehensible – but the contents of our conscious mind are more […]

Strange Maps

A Map of State Movies

Each state has its own state bird; why not a state movie?

Strange Maps

111 – The Comancheria, Lost Homeland of a Warrior Tribe

n Under the presidency of Sam Houston (1836-’38, 1841-’44) the then independent Republic of Texas almost came to a peace agreement with the tribal collective known as the Comanche. The […]