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With the Reversible Destiny Foundation, architect-philosophers Arakawa and Gins created disquieting designs meant to defeat mortality.

Captured, castrated, and forced to serve the Hongwu Emperor, Zeng He subsequently led a massive Ming fleet of treasure ships across an ever-expanding empire.

Nineteenth-century opponents of vivisection warned that the practice could make researchers and physicians callous toward all living creatures.

Wertham convinced 1950s America that comic books led to depravity. He also used his extremist views to raise money for an anti-racist clinic in Harlem.

Singapore English is famous for its sentences that end with the particle lah. But what does it mean when people use the particle one instead?

Living in exile in Germany, the young New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield found solace in studying—and copying—Chekhov’s short stories.

What are scientists to do? Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton and historian of science Naomi Oreskes consider the social responsibility of climate scientists.

In sixteenth-century Spain, veiling allowed women to move freely through cities while keeping their identities private.