The history of hell doesn’t begin with the Old Testament. Instead, hell took shape in the 2nd century from Mediterranean cultural exchange.
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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.
Chloé Valdary — founder of Theory of Enchantment — explores two essential practices for generating the team “magic” that drove Apple under Steve Jobs.
Psychologists are finding that moral code violations can leave an enduring mark — and may require new types of therapy.
Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.
In a nod to its addictive qualities, it was first dubbed “Some More.”
According to Peter Ward’s “Medea hypothesis,” photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Before Constantine received his history-defining vision, a pagan Sun god paved the way for Jesus Christ’s triumphal entry into the Eternal City.
Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?
After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.
Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, but the work was strenuous and dangerous. Then refrigeration changed everything.
An X-ray offers a glimpse into the painter’s early years.
The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
Adolescents actively shape the transformation of religion and become the bearers of new religious patterns, worldviews, and values.
On July 4, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics.
A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.
Quarterback Tom Brady was initially overlooked by NFL scouts, but he had vast hidden reserves of character.
A controversial new philosophy paper tries to bring our moral prejudices to heel. Should it?
If you don’t mourn in North Korea, you risk being executed.
Some effective altruists “earn to give” — they make as much money as they can and then donate most of it to charities.
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
Individuals and organizations can maintain a strong and enduring identity by repeatedly remaking themselves.
You know that ghostly feeling that someone is nearby even though nobody is? It could be a trick of neural timing.
More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.
Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.
Computers are growing more powerful and more capable, but everything has limits