Despite starting from virtually nothing, Gordon Parks succeeded in making art in multiple media, from the pages of Vogue magazine to the success of Shaft and other groundbreaking…
Plastic recycling is a waste of energy, resources, and, especially, vision. For every pound of plastic that is successfully recycled, between 90 and 95 pounds of pernicious…
Psychologist John Money pioneered the now-common practice of surgically altering the sex of infants with ambiguous genitalia. But many intersex people have suffered trauma from…
Is Michelangelo’s statue of David pornographic? It turns out the question isn’t new – it’s age-old and dates almost to its time of completion. Michelangelo felt differently, of…
In 2022, history was made when an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy was released. Even more momentous, the discovery confirmed the…
Who were the Knights Templar? Were they a secretive sect that amassed untold fortunes and harbored a desire to control the world? Or were they something else entirely? Take a dive…
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was a man of vision, designing structures that broke with European precedent. Best known for his homes for wealthy patrons, when the Great Depression…
French 19th century painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s long-standing anti-Semitism affected his career choices, his aesthetic strategies, and his painterly style. Explore the…
Are we alone in the Universe? Many people wonder if we’ll ever encounter an intelligence from beyond our planet. Space science organizations are searching our galaxy to uncover…
In Florence, Italy, in the early 1400s, male same-sex practices were not uncommon. Leonardo da Vinci was anonymously denounced for this as a young man, and his case’s outcome…
Fine French dining has evolved significantly over the past century. However, the essence of French cuisine, bringing rich flavors to diners’ palates in an aesthetically pleasing…
In the United States and elsewhere, chicken is the most popular meat. There are billions of chickens all around the world. Let’s dig in for a delightful – and delectable – ride…
Astrophysicists have laid out ages that define the duration of our universe, from the opening moments of the Big Bang through our current era to the endpoint of everything, when…
Comfort foods offer many (psychological, if not physical) benefits. The dopamine release made possible by these foods confers rewards like pleasure, stress relief, and warm…
The Cannes Film Festival’s origin contains the makings of a great wartime thriller: a freedom-loving faction squares off against threats from Nazis and fascists. Is all lost?…
Frank Sinatra was a towering figure in the cultural history of the 20th century. But the pinnacle of his career, at least in music, may be his albums of the ’50s. His legacy…
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring sounded the warning that DDT was decimating critical insect populations. Today, habitat destruction, climate change, and new pesticides have…
This year, 2020, marks the 50th anniversary of a milestone in the progress of the feminist movement in the U.S., a political event that demonstrated the power and reach of “second…
Out of 600,000 works of art stolen or looted by the Nazis during WWII, more than 100,000 are still unaccounted for. Nazi collaborators, even in Allied countries, helped the Nazis…
How did the Solar System form, and how did Earth become the only planet where life has developed? In a story perhaps best experienced through a documentary film, we see that a…
Have you met Jim al-Khalili? (You’re about to.) He is a UK-based theoretical physicist and also a talented interpreter of technical science for people like us – sort of a…
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