Los Angeles's bountiful agricultural land was devoured by runaway suburbanization, a process which began long before the post-war era.

An ancient ball game called Ulama is making a comeback in Mexico. What do we know about the earlier iteration of the game?

In a perplexing recent study, researchers dosed octopuses. Turns out, scientists have long studied the similarities between cephalopod and human brains.

A hundred years ago, it was quite common for working-class children to roam the streets freely at night.

Though he was once dismissed as a dilettante, naturalist Francis Willughby was in fact part of the vanguard of observation-based modern science.

Overfishing is a huge problem in international waters. Some suggest a fishing ban. Others stress a shared shift toward cooperation and long-term thinking.

The Falnama, or Book of Omens, combined apocalyptic representations from many sources. Say a prayer, ask your question, and flip to a random page.

Sociologists find that sports are inextricably intertwined with the people, countries, and politics surrounding them.

At the turn of the century, Chicago police killed 307 people, one in eighteen homicides in the city—three times the body count of local gangsters.

The author of Frankenstein always saw love and death as connected. She visited the cemetery to commune with her dead mother. And with her lover.