How Horses Save Humans From Snakebites

Where Kant and Rousseau theorized, George Forster sailed the world to learn what makes humans human

Supreme Court Ends Agency "Independence," Save for the Federal Reserve

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Instagram Plus Is a New Low

Illegible benefits

HUD Rejects Failed “Housing First” Strategy

Catspeak

MIT-Kalaniyot program expands, with new cohort of scholars

The idea that success is deserved has great traction in the world but it is a deeply flawed notion

We Need A Way To Prove Personhood Online

Astrophysicists have always built tools to see farther. The new tools may make the humans unnecessary

Can the Manchester Model Save Britain?

Why were mysterious ancient humans found in an African cave all female?

How Humans Are Like Bloodhounds and Bats

Three Horses

The Renaissance didn't begin in Florence. It began six thousand years ago in the Middle East. So argues a new book

When You’re Right, You’re Right

The Odyssey has survived three millennia. Can it survive a $250 million movie adaptation?

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Paul Klee painted it. Walter Benjamin coveted it. And Morgan Meis spent a lifetime obsessing over it