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Mating snails stab each other with barbs to increase chances of paternity.

The pandemic helped establish homeschooling as a fixture among educational options in the US. But it’s been around—and gaining in popularity—for a while.

They didn't have to do anything besides stand around and look pretty. At least, that was the myth the studios wanted the public to believe.

Movie portrayals of faculty may influence the ideas about professors that students bring to the first day of class.

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The Paul Bunyan of the steel industry never went on strike. He was too tied up working the twenty-four-hour shifts that unions were fighting.

From the moment US Army troops arrived in the South, newly freed people sought ways to gain education—particularly to learn to read and write.

An unlikely source of data about the decline of trout in modern Spain: a book from the 1850s.

Historically, the Supreme Court has held that forgoing vaccines is a threat to public health and therefore beyond the bounds of liberty.