The number of ethnic Chinese incarcerated in Boven Digoel in the 1920s was low, but the New Guinea colonial prison nonetheless shaped Sino-Malay literature.

What does it mean when an entire convent of Urusline nuns appears to be possessed by demons? Many things, as it turns out.

Scholar Alison Habens tells us more about the Greek goddesses who provided divine inspiration for ancient poets.

In the 1950s, supersized insects were the villains in a rash of big-screen horror movies. What did those monstrous roaches represent, and how were they vanquished?

Palm reading, also known as palmistry or chiromancy, has fascinated us as a practice and a party trick for centuries.

Well-researched stories from Aeon, Nautilus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

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Since the 1930s, the idea of a “Judeo-Christian tradition” has been used in American politics, but some Jews have always taken issue with the entire concept.

The electron microscope brought about a paradigm shift in virology in the middle of the twentieth century.