Flash fiction by Grace Paley, Helen Phillips, Clemens Setz, Vanessa Gebbie, and Josefine Klougart, available for free PDF download.

Municipal water treatment just got easier, cheaper, and more efficient. And it's all thanks to an unlikely helper: bacteria.

Harvard Business School once attempted to apply psychological and political ideas to the project of saving capitalism from ruin.

Everyone knows the potato chip was invented in Saratoga Springs, NY in 1853. Except it wasn’t.

The Mediterranean island nation of Malta is the scene of migratory bird massacres twice a year. Why do they continue to do it?

In July 1863, over a thousand Irish dockworkers rioted against the Civil War draft in New York City in a four-day upheaval, targeting black workers and citizens.

Although studying the language known as “Anglo-Saxon” helped women advance in the academy, the subject is fraught with racist associations.

"False friends" appear or sound like words in their own language, but have different meanings in others. They give us insight into how language changes.

The question of whether or not to tip can be vexing, particularly when a type of service, like ride-sharing, is relatively new.

Archaeologists recently discovered evidence of a long-lost pyramid dating to the thirteenth dynasty of Egypt’s Old Kingdom. How does a pyramid get lost?