Storyteller Golriz Lucina recounts how the historic sacrifice of Iranian 19th-century poet and mystic Táhirih planted the seeds for the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests today, offering...
Lauren D. Ginsberg, an Ancient Rome professor, answers the internet’s burning questions about the Roman Empire. What did Romans snack on in the Colosseum? Why does...
“Love him or hate him, Napoleon is a figure probably unrivaled in modern history.” Today Jonathon Riley, a British General and historian, breaks down French emperor...
From World War II to the 2008 economic collapse and beyond, history shows that economists don’t always see the future as clearly as they think they...
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human in outer space—but only with an emergency override could he manually control his ship, Vostok 1. Still haven’t...
Conceptual artist Tavares Strachan creates the kinds of projects that make you stop in your tracks, like a 4.5-ton block of Arctic ice he brought back...
The word “sustainability” gets thrown around a lot these days. But what does it actually mean for humanity to be sustainable? Environmental data scientist Hannah Ritchie...
From the astonishing evolutionary advances of the Cambrian explosion to our present-day computing revolution, the trend of dramatic growth after periods of stability can be explained...
What can we make of a design that shows up over and over in disparate cultures throughout history? Theorist Terry Moore explores “Penrose tiling” — two...
Based on her work for a CIA task force aimed at predicting civil wars, political scientist Barbara F. Walter examines the rise in extremism and threats...