A bowl of fruit soup

We Made Fruit Soup

And so should you.

String Theory Is Not Dead

Out of the limelight, theoretical physicists seek the math that can explain the universe’s particles and forces.
From a 1916 advertisement for Hoosier Kitchen Cabinets

Hoosier Cabinets and the Dream of Efficiency

Out of Indiana came a beloved wooden innovation that helped change the status of the kitchen in the American home.
A clown and a harlequin are amongst the characters portrayed by King William IV (1765 - 1837), Lord Broughan, Lord Gray and Lord Eldon at a royal Christmas pantomime.

A Holiday Pantomime

With origins in the theater of the early eighteenth century, “panto” remains a crucial element of the holiday season in Great Britain and Ireland.
A priest holds a christening for a baby of Tibetan ethnic minority group attends a mass at a church of Cizhong Village on December 25, 2006 in Deqin County of Yunnan Province, China

A Tibetan Christmas

The story of Cizhong’s Catholic holiday festival began when French missionaries arrived in northwest Yunnan with plans to spread their faith across Tibet.
Weather and virus symbols in a forecast illustration

Disease Forecasts, AI Goes Nuclear, and Daniel Dennett

Well-researched stories from Aeon, Hakai Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Photographs of white snowflakes on a dark blue background.

Winter Holidays

Celebrate with some seasonal scholarship from JSTOR Daily for the winter holidays.
Skilled women workers helped build SS George Washington Carver, Kaiser Shipyards, Richmond, California, 1943

In the Shipyards of San Francisco

Photographer E. F. Joseph captured the dignity of the hundreds of Black women and men who worked on SS George Washington Carver during World War II.
Sporting a natural white beard, Santa Claus visits with Ian, 2, and sister Devin Rachiele, 4, December 19, 2003 at Golf Mill Mall in Niles, Illinois.

It’s Tough Work Being a Temporary Santa

Playing the role of a shopping mall Santa comes with challenges familiar to any gig worker, but the performers also see the job as carrying special meaning.
Alastair Sim as Scrooge in the film of the same name, adapted from Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol

Annotations: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.