While exceptionally rare, congenital analgesia, or a total insensitivity to pain, is a real condition that can be quite dangerous.

When electric lighting was first introduced to U.S. households, marketing departments tried to convince women that better lighting would be flattering.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been making political waves for decades, but his current shows are especially relevant to the United States.

The word “risk” took on new meaning in the 19th century, when it became a way of understanding the interactions between individuals and economic markets.

Gender studies developed alongside and emerged out of Women’s Studies. This non-exhaustive list introduces readers to scholarship in the field.

A security robot targets the homeless, raising questions about whether private companies can expand their security detail to public spaces like sidewalks.

With recreational marijuana use now legal across Canada, companies are jockeying for market share while bureaucracies struggle to make estimates.

Authorship of Hollywood screenplays is often a complicated matter. But William Goldman was truly a writer in Hollywood.

A Curious Reader asks: What’s the origin of the familiar breakfast-lunch-dinner triad?

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