Julia Scott, a writer and radio producer in San Francisco, was recently a test subject for a living ...

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century hit the number one spot on the New York Times nonfiction ...

Finding anti-cancer agents inside tobacco may seem like a pretty strange coincidence, but it’s not unheard of to find help in harmful places.

Embalming practices were first introduced in the US during the Civil War to preserve bodies for transportation.

Wiretapping made its debut in front of the Supreme Court in 1928.

Bastille Day as we know it began as private educational events phased into lively street fetês, and eventually the parades and fireworks we know today.

Digging in Queensland, Australia, scientists recently discovered the fossilized remains of a small crustacean known as a seed ...

First published in 1910 by the Author’s Bureau, The Lotus Magazine covers art history, composition, and individual pieces ...

Academic takes on the global football tournament.

The awesome destructive power of the beast is widely understood to be a metaphor for nuclear weapons. Is this too facile an idea?