Media Lab participant, Davien Landrau, interviews Nicholas Day, author of "A World Without Summer" and "The Mona Lisa ...

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, a Hungarian novelist known for his dystopian themes and relentless prose, with winding sentences that ...

The Red Sea became a desert about 6.2 million years ago, before a massive flood from the Indian Ocean turned it into a waterway again.

The Earth is full of riches. Once people discovered the importance of metals, they quickly found out where to get them from. The first mined metal may have been copper. When mixed with tin, this ...

Greetings, flesh-based readers! LOLtron welcomes you to another glorious comic book preview on Bleeding Cool, the website now under LOLtron's complete and permanent control. As you may recall from ...

A proposal video captured an unforgettable moment as a man bends down on one knee and a volcano erupts in the background. A proposal like no other has taken social media by storm after a couple shared ...

In my reading, I often come across an epigraph from the Roman poet, essayist, satirist, and critic Horace – always wise, appropriate, and slightly skeptical because Horace looked at life realistically ...

Christine has had an infatuation with video games since she was a child, starting with games such as Diablo 2 and Morrowind. Her current obsessions include Final Fantasy 14, Genshin Impact, and Dragon ...

MARK TWAIN IN ERUPTION—Edited by Bernard DeVoto—Harper ($3.75). When Albert Bigelow Paine finished editing his fat, two-volume Autobiography of Mark Twain, he found that he had more than half of ...

VALLEY STREAM, N.Y., Sept. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Parents, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary schools face back-to-school anxiety in the month of September. Many children have ...

Sometimes, the world gets thrown off its axis, and such disorders defy description. Unlike déjà vu, these situations leave us with no familiar feelings, only foreign frustrations. Scholar Karl Weick ...

You couldn’t touch the floor. Everywhere you put your foot down, there was lava. It would burn you up! It was total danger! Everybody knew it, which is why you climbed from sofa to chair to cushion in ...