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Between 1790 and 1860, New York City’s food markets were public, sustained by active government involvement. What happened?

In the Christian New Testament, Saint John the Baptist and Salome never meet. Why, then, does she appear at the bars of his cell in Guercino’s moody painting?

The virtual water trade reveals significant disparities between water-rich states and their trade partners.

This week, we practice using our skills of visual analysis and learn how to "read" deliberately constructed images.

When uroscopy became trendy, it caused a minor scandal within the early medical profession.

Mindfulness has been linked with ethical decision making and avoidance of cognitive biases. Can it lead to better performance at work?

The joy and concern we feel on World Bear Day perfectly represents our complicated—and sometimes contradictory—feelings about these massive mammals.

Based on Woolf's own family, Freshwater was a tongue-in-cheek comedy full of inside jokes, written to entertain members of the Bloomsbury Group.

The most influential character on Showtime’s Yellowjackets is the one who goes unnamed: Dionysus.