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Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning About the Decline of Scientific Thinking in America: Watch His Final Interview (1996)
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Until the end of his life, Carl Sagan (1934–1996) continued doing what...
The Real Story of Easter: How We Got from the First Easter in the Bible to Bunnies, Eggs & Chocolate
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Popular culture has long since claimed Easter as an occasion for trickster...
How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome: A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals an Ancient Tax Evasion Scheme
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It was surely not a coincidence that the New York Times published...
How to Enter a ‘Flow State’ on Command: Peak Performance Mind Hack Explained in 7 Minutes
3 days ago
You can be forgiven for thinking the concept of “flow” was cooked...
A Forgotten 16th-Century Manuscript Reveals the First Designs for Modern Rockets
4 days ago
The Austrian military engineer Conrad Haas was a man ahead of his...
Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Color Blue
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In an old Zen story, two monks argue over whether a flag...
The Ark Before Noah: Discover the Ancient Flood Myths That Came Before the Bible
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The Lord said to Noah, there’s going to be a floody, floody;...
William Faulkner’s Review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
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Images via Wikimedia Commons In the mid-20th century, the two big dogs...
What the World Will Look Like in 250 Million Years: Mapping the Distant Future
6 days ago
Most of us now accept the idea that all of Earth’s continents...
What Was Smoot-Hawley, and Why Are We Doing It Again? Anyone? Anyone?
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When most Americans think of the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs, they think of economic...
How Chinese Characters Work: The Evolution of a Three-Millennia-Old Writing System
9 days ago
Contrary to somewhat popular belief, Chinese characters aren’t just little pictures. In...
Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago
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Do you like old timey music? Splendid. You can’t get more old...