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A jinni in the home can help a Muslim explore religious tenets, but it may also interfere with the direct relationship between human and god.

Despite the prevalence of tricks and spooky spirits in earlier years, the American commercial holiday didn’t develop until the middle of the twentieth century.

If Dracula represented the collective fears of his day, what do the likes of Slender Man and other internet monsters tell us about the zeitgeist of right now?

As preservationists grapple with crumbling monuments in Brazil and Peru, they’re also confronting the progressive agendas that originally shaped the buildings.

Well-researched stories from NPR, Scientific American, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

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We all ponder them when standing in the cereal aisle of the grocery store, but why do we even have nutrition labels on our foods?