In the 17th century, Nathaniel Giles had the right to conscript young singers into the British royal children’s choir. He and a business partner went a step further.

Cartoon stories about early humans bear a striking resemblance to many popular uses of evolutionary psychology today.

The attitudes reflected in the James Bond franchise are wildly out of touch with social reality.

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