Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

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The Native American democracy that the U.S. founders were most likely to know about was the Iroquois Confederacy. They call themselves the Haudenosaunee, the “people of the longhouse,” because the ...

The university is also staring down a deadline: The Trump administration has said it wants initial signatories by Nov. 21. UT ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution asks the important question.. what if the French Revolution was fought with giant robots?

Maybe the Democrats will wake up and go back to the days of Thomas Phillip “Tip” O’Neill and Dick Gephardt. I didn’t think ...

Pope Leo XIV gave the artifacts, including an iconic Inuit kayak, and supporting documentation to the Canadian Conference of ...

There are serious concerns about the “flip the camera” social trend. This trend is described in the media as a form of ...

In 1913, Joseph “Joe” Knowles, a Boston newspaper artist and self-proclaimed outdoorsman, walked naked into the forests of ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with ...