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Murder, Polar Bears, and Arctic Hurricanes: The Many Twists and Turns of a 2008 Whaling Research Expedition

Murder, Polar Bears, and Arctic Hurricanes: The Many Twists and Turns of a 2008 Whaling Research Expedition

“All efforts were futile. We were merely spectators to the ways of nature.”

By Jeff Wilser | October 28, 2025

Mother of the Revolution: How Audley Moore Influenced a Generation of Black Activists

Mother of the Revolution: How Audley Moore Influenced a Generation of Black Activists

Ashley D. Farmer on the Life and Legacy of the Woman Who Spearheaded the Fight For Reparations

By Ashley D. Farmer | October 28, 2025

How the Discovery of Single-Celled Marine Organisms Resulted in One of the Most Influential Illustrated Books Ever Published

How the Discovery of Single-Celled Marine Organisms Resulted in One of the Most Influential Illustrated Books Ever Published

Michael Benson on Ernst Haeckel’s Precise Drawings of Radiolarians

By Michael Benson | October 28, 2025

On the 19th-Century Scientist Who Realized Solar Storms Influence Life on Earth

On the 19th-Century Scientist Who Realized Solar Storms Influence Life on Earth

Richard Carrington: “There suddenly broke out a kind of conflagration...”

By Dagomar Degroot | October 27, 2025

Meet the Kobold, the Gnome’s Tougher, Meaner Cousin

Meet the Kobold, the Gnome’s Tougher, Meaner Cousin

Nikki Van De Car on the Many Types of Mischievous Household Spirits

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Inside the International Race to Invent the Atomic Bomb

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Six Essential Texts That Explain the Historical Importance of the German Peasants’ War

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How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World

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Imaobong Umoren on the Violent History of the Colonized Caribbean

By Imaobong Umoren | October 23, 2025

Cursed Mountains and Deathly Lakes: When Nature Is Explained By Myth

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On the Simple Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Philosophy as “Neverending Therapy”

On the Simple Life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Philosophy as “Neverending Therapy”

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