Society & Culture

How to Enter a ‘Flow State’ on Command: Peak Performanc...

You can be forgiven for thinking the concept of “flow” was cooked up and popular...

How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome: A 1,900-Year-Old Pa...

It was surely not a coincidence that the New York Times published its story on t...

The Real Story of Easter: How We Got from the First Eas...

Popular culture has long since claimed Easter as an occasion for trickster rabbi...

Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning About the Decline ...

Until the end of his life, Carl Sagan (1934–1996) continued doing what he did al...

James Joyce, With His Eyesight Failing, Draws a Sketch ...

James Joyce had a terrible time with his eyes. When he was six years old he rece...

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi–Walt Disney...

During World War II, Walt Disney entered into a contract with the US government ...

The Extreme Life and Philosophy of Hunter S. Thompson: ...

Hunter S. Thompson has been gone for two decades now. When he went out, as the n...

How Zaha Hadid Revolutionized Architecture & Drew Inspi...

Zaha Hadid died in 2016, at the age of 65. She certainly wasn’t old, by the stan...

The 1924 Soviet Chess Match Where The Chess Pieces Were...

Let’s time travel back to Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg) in 1924. That’s when an...

The Roman Colosseum Deconstructed: 3D Animation Reveals...

Most tourists in Rome put the Colosseum at the top of their to-see list. (My own...

Hōshi: A Short Documentary on the 1300-Year-Old Hotel R...

Hōshi, a traditional Japanese inn in Komatsu, Japan, holds the distinction of be...

Miles Davis’ Album On the Corner Tried to Woo Young Roc...

Miles Davis didn’t put out any studio albums from 1973 until the middle of 1981....

WATCH: ICE agents smash car window, pull couple from ca...

A New Bedford couple says they were pulled from their car by federal agents on M...

One Boston Day remembers lives lost in marathon bombing...

Community members gathered to honor the victims and survivors of the Boston Mara...

Trump administration freeze of $2B in grant money for H...

The Trump administration froze over $2B in grant money for Harvard. The freeze c...

Hong Kong post office will stop shipping parcels to the...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s post office will stop shipping small parcels to the...

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