Is the syllable universal? Maybe. We look at how languages use (and don't use) syllables, and what this says about language itself.

Prior to the 18th century, children were considered little adults. It was only during the Romantic Era that the concept of childhood emerged.

Found in a cave in South Africa, the fossils have been determined to be from Homo naledi, a previously unknown ancestor of the human species.

The critique of contemporary "victim culture" has parallels to the critique of "victim feminism" of the 1990s.

Organized groups have arisen to enforce "party purity" and wider political polarization in American politics.

Reforms to rape law in the 1970s and 1980s transformed the definition of rape and brought the crime out of the shadows.

Noah Purifoy transformed the wreckage from the 1965 Watts riots into art, and in doing so, he transformed much more.

Tipping as cultural practice: why some countries like the U.S. like tipping and others don't.

The origin of coal miners’ unions during the late nineteenth century.

The Manhattan Project needed an instant library in Los Alamos built from scratch and in secrecy--this is how it was done.