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What lights up the screen that you’re looking at right now? Trace back the battery chargers and power cords and you’ll end up at an electrical outlet, providing easy, safe access to reliable electricity. But beyond that outlet, the picture gets messier. It takes a lot of fuel to heat our homes, preserve our food, …
For as far back as we can trace our existence, humans have been fascinated with death and resurrection. Nearly every religion in the world has some interpretation of them, and from our earliest myths to the latest cinematic blockbusters, the dead keep coming back. But is resurrection really possible? And what is the actual difference …
Three and a half thousand years ago in Egypt, a noble pharaoh was the victim of a violent attack. But the attack was not physical. This royal had been dead for 20 years. The attack was historical, an act of damnatio memoriae, the damnation of memory. Somebody smashed the pharaoh’s statues, took a chisel and …
Flying through the night, I watch over this world, a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a dark knight, I’m… Okay, fine. So, I’m not Batman. I’m just a bat. But like Batman, I’m often misunderstood. People think I’m scary, strange and dangerous. If they only knew my story, though, I’d be cheered as a hero. …
What would you do if you thought your country was on the path to tyranny? If you saw one man gaining too much power, would you try to stop him? Even if that man was one of your closest friends and allies? These were the questions haunting Roman Senator Marcus Junius Brutus in 44 BCE, …
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Slavery, the treatment of human beings as property, deprived of personal rights, has occurred in many forms throughout the world. But one institution stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy. The Atlantic slave trade, occurring from the late 15th to the mid 19th century and spanning three continents, forcibly brought more …
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It’s 4 a.m., and the big test is in eight hours, followed by a piano recital. You’ve been studying and playing for days, but you still don’t feel ready for either. So, what can you do? Well, you can drink another cup of coffee and spend the next few hours cramming and practicing, but believe …
As 1905 dawned, the soon-to-be 26-year-old Albert Einstein faced life as a failed academic. Most physicists of the time would have scoffed at the idea that this minor civil servant could have much to contribute to science. Yet within the following year, Einstein would publish not one, not two, not three, but four extraordinary papers, …
The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to direct sunlight, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant horizon in a third of a second. In fact, the structures required for such incredible flexibility were once considered so complex that Charles Darwin …
You probably don’t need to be told how important your brain is. After all, every single thing you experience, your thoughts and your actions, your perceptions and your memories are processed here in your body’s control center. But if this already seems like a lot for a single organ to handle, it’s actually only a …
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