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Apparent Homicide

The self-castrating devotees of Inanna in ancient Mesopotamia are evidence enough that religious fanatics can demonst...

Written by J. A. Macfarlane • 19 Oct 2017 • Read →

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Ticking Time Palm

Ancient Israel was renowned for its date palm plants, which were widespread in thick forests and reportedly bore deli...

Written by Marisa Brook • 09 Oct 2017 • Read →

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Aluminum Illuminated

Shortly after aluminum was first discovered in the early 19th century it was counted among the most precious metals o...

Written by Alan Bellows • 08 Sep 2017 • Read/Listen →

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Hasty Hostilities

Zanzibar, an island nation that is now part of Tanzania, has been a contested territory for centuries. Starting in th...

Written by Christine Ro • 04 Sep 2017 • Read/Listen →

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The Height of Mathematics

The height of Mount Everest was not calculated by George Everest, but by a brilliant mathematician who has since been...

Written by Marisa Brook • 28 Aug 2017 • Read/Listen →

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Of Meteors and Men

In the early 1960s, General Electric proposed a system whereby an astronaut in a space emergency might abandon ship a...

Written by Alan Bellows • 21 Aug 2017 • Read/Listen →

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Of Earwax and Ethnicity

One way of determining a person’s likely ethnicity is looking inside their ears. Simply put, there are two kinds of e...

Written by Christine Ro • 14 Aug 2017 • Read/Listen →

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National Treasure

Inside America's Mount Rushmore National Monument there is a "secret" chamber known as the Hidden Hall of Records. Th...

Written by Alan Bellows • 02 Aug 2017 • Read/Listen →

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Well-Rounded

The most perfectly spherical object ever observed by mankind is the electron. In a series of experiments led by physi...

Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Jul 2017 • Read/Listen →

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The Making of the Archetypal Englishman

Jonas Hanway (1712–1786) may be the most contradictory character ever involved in the formation of British culture. O...

Written by J. A. Macfarlane • 06 Jul 2017 • Read →

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