Describing the horrors of communism under Stalin and others, Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in his magnum opus, “The Gulag Archipelago,” that “the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” Indeed, under the communist […]
For centuries, alchemists dreamed of finding a way to transform base metals like lead into gold. Known as chrysopoeia, this goal was central to the mystical and experimental practice of alchemy in the Middle Ages. While their efforts never produced
In his last, most pathetic years, Mark Twain threw himself behind the crackpot theory that the true author of Shakespeare’s plays may have been Francis Bacon. The penultimate book that Twain published in his lifetime, Is Shakespeare Dead? (1909), asked
A new artificial intelligence (AI) model can predict a person’s biological age — the state of their body and how they’re aging — from a selfie. The model, dubbed FaceAge, estimates how old a person looks compared to their chronological
Starting May 14th, this online course investigates the history of the Angevin Empire during the reigns of Henry II, Richard I, and John. Topics covered will include the Great Rebellion, the murder of Thomas Becket, and Magan Carta. Over six
Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in the Vatican, on
Thinking of upgrading your Android smartwatch? Now may be the best time to do so. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 has seen some great discounts in the last three months, but it has never been this cheap before. Amazon has
Remember the days after President Joe Biden’s barely-coherent debate performance, when Democratic dead-enders insisted that nothing was the matter? That was embarrassing. But apparently it wasn’t so embarrassing that everybody took away the correct lesson, because something similar is now
“Big cats” are living members of the genus Panthera. There are five big cat species, including lions and tigers. They are found on most continents — including Africa, Asia and South America — and in various types of environment, such
Like buffets and online dating and many other terrible-and-wonderful things, budgets are about trade-offs. Policy makers in Washington seem to have forgotten that obvious reality. From the Great Recession through the acute phase of the coronavirus pandemic, interest rates were
