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When Galileo Calculated the Precise Dimensions of Hell in Dante’s Inferno

about 11 hours ago

We venerate Galileo Galilei for daring to speak the scientific truth in...

Listen to 4+ Hours of Jazz & Classical Music from Haruki Murakami’s Novels

about 12 hours ago

Before he became a novelist, Haruki Murakami ran a jazz bar in...

Rage Against the Machines: From the Luddites to the AI Data Center Backlash

3 days ago

One often-repeated anecdote about Milton Friedman has the famous economist visiting a...

An In-Depth, Immersive Journey Through the Bayeux Tapestry

4 days ago

With the Bayeux Tapestry now on display at the British Museum, Deep...

How Reading Changes the Way Your Brain Works

4 days ago

Reading is unnatural. This will hardly come as a surprise to any...

Watch Footage from the Psychology Experiment That Shocked the World: Milgram’s Obedience Study (1961)

5 days ago

For decades following World War II,  the world was left wondering how...

The Genius Logic of the NATO Phonetic Alphabet: How It Was Created & How It Works

5 days ago

Most of us can rattle off the first few words-that-stand-for-letters of the...

The Radical Ideas of Plato’s Republic: An In-Depth Introduction

6 days ago

We no longer live in a time when college freshmen get shocked...

Why Incompetent People Think They’re Amazing: An Animated Lesson from David Dunning (of the Famous “Dunning-Kruger Effect”)

6 days ago

The business world has long had special jargon for the Kafkaesque incompetence...

How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America

7 days ago

Image by Dick DeMarsico, via Wikimedia Commons The influence of Georg Wilhelm...

How the Silk Road Actually Worked (and What Could Go Terribly Wrong On It)

7 days ago

You don’t have to spend a long time reading up on the...

Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in 25,000-Year-Old Teeth

10 days ago

Image by Fakhri “Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in...