New York’s Long Island has long served as a backdrop for social and political conflicts between the newly arrived and the established residents.

Kurt Weill and his musical collaborators used utopian fantasies to explore the social and political conditions of a fading Weimar Republic.

Scientists say they’ve found the cause of a marine epidemic more than ten years after it started. What took so long?

Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery shows that humans have been creating fan fiction and fake news for millennia.

Toys, even ones marketed as tools for the imagination, are never value neutral.

Well-researched stories from Mongabay, Ars Technica, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Piet Mondrian, co-founder of De Stijl, argued that the art movement wasn’t ready for architecture. Theo van Doesburg and others believed it was. Who was right?

If the intercropping of beans, squash, and corn produces smaller yields, why did the the Haudenosaunee prefer the Three Sisters system?

Or maybe this week’s puzzle is really about Greek salad and gulleys.

Researchers interviewed women in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town to understand how they coped with social and economic changes tied to deindustrialization.