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The “green” proposal would bring a 21st-century update to the 850-year-old cathedral.
As Game of Thrones ends, a revealing resolution to its perplexing geography.
What can and can’t you say? A brief glimpse of precedent-setting free speech cases in the United States.
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Surprising studies revealed why mothers affected the genetic pool more than fathers.
Buying cards and flowers on Mother’s Day would make Anna Jarvis roll around in her grave.
The recent debate between Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson lived up to the hype.
The lack of tall, strong oak trees poses something of a problem for the restoration effort.
Here are 7 often-overlooked World Heritage Sites, each with its own history.
Experts argue the jaws of an ancient European ape reveal a key human ancestor.
Digitally recording historical sites could serve as insurance in the case of disaster.
Elite organizations tend to get conspiracy theorists going.
Polls show that more Americans today define socialism as an ideology of “equality” than one espousing government control of the economy.
The artifact will be opened on Sunday, for the first time in millennia, at an undisclosed location in Egypt.
Can 6,500 mercenaries “fix” Afghanistan? The U.S. is resurrecting privatized warfare.
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Biographies, treatises and stories on the occult and its strange cast of characters.
Modern notions about the Illuminati are the result of a satirical cult-classic book.
Archeologists had been doubtful since no such ship had ever been found.
The distance between the American dream and reality is expressed best through literature.
Scientists discovered microbes that have lived on Earth for millions of years.
Over 100 new pages of Einstein’s writings, including long-lost calculations, have been made public.
The American Museum of Natural History presents the new, more accurate T. rex.
The hard part was keeping the list down to ten.
Did a poorly understood ancient civilization somersault over charging bulls?
Our culture has its own mistaken assumption: that the individual is an autonomous human intellect independent from the social environment.
Few realize that the US was once “ruled” by a beloved monarch from San Francisco.
The story of that one time a U.S. city was run by a Soviet, and what it was like to live in it.
A new study of thousands links right-wing authoritarian attitudes and feeling one’s life is more meaningful.