The Astounding Adaptations of Long-Distance Flyers
Frigate birds are truly champion fliers. The birds can fly for weeks without stopping. How do they do it?
What Does the Vice President Do?
Even the people with the job used to disparage the Vice Presidency. That's changed in the modern era.
This Doc Was Really Nuts
Nuts! is a new documentary about John R. Brinkley, whose claim to fame was transplanting goat testicles into men in the 1920s.
The Long History of African Immigrants in Spain
Despite what current nationalist trends might suggest, there is a long history of African influence in Spain.
What Sir Walter Scott’s Historical Fiction Reveals About the Brexit
A scholar locates early European Unionism in the works of Sir Walter Scott. How would Scott have voted in the Brexit referendum?
When Mexico Was Flooded By Immigrants
In the early nineteenth-century, Mexico had a problem with American immigrants.
What Did Fashion Magazines Have To Do With Dada?
When you think of Dada, do you think of Europe? If so, you’re missing one of its hotbeds—New York.
Queen Elizabeth II: Symbol and Style
The fashion of Queen Elizabeth II reigned supreme for the past 90 years.
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The Nuptial Gifts of the Firefly
Fireflies, lightning bugs, glowworms: the evocative insects of summer reveal some surprising new insights into biology.