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Roger Luckhurst on the Varied Funerary Practices Within Our Cultures—And History

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“We Call Them Vampires.” Studying Bats in the Jungles of Belize

“We Call Them Vampires.” Studying Bats in the Jungles of Belize

Yossi Yovel Explores the Natural Habitat of a Blood Sucking Mammal

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Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack the Ripper and the Fact and Fiction of Criminal Profiling

Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack the Ripper and the Fact and Fiction of Criminal Profiling

Rachel Corbett on the Efforts to Find One of History’s Most Gruesome Serial Killers

By Rachel Corbett | October 31, 2025

On Zombie Ants, Parasitic Fungus, and the Violent Legacy of Anti-Blackness

On Zombie Ants, Parasitic Fungus, and the Violent Legacy of Anti-Blackness

Maria Pinto Considers the Striking Parallels Between the Human and the Natural Worlds

By Maria Pinto | October 31, 2025

Feeding Our Ghosts: How Food Invokes Memories of Ones Loved and Lost

Feeding Our Ghosts: How Food Invokes Memories of Ones Loved and Lost

Daria Lavelle on the Bond Between Taste and the Departed

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Libraries are reeling after a major distributor shutdown.

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Shane Hinton Won’t Let Money Stand in the Way of a Potential Reader

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What Henry VIII’s Despotic Rule Can Teach Us About Today’s Tyrants

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Daily Affirmations for the Dog In Your Life

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Life and Death in the Impoverished Neighborhood of Alabama Village

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