L. Frank Baum was a sickly boy who was educated mostly at home, where he became a voracious reader. He soon created a lasting ...

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On Old Age, the Roman politician, orator, and philosopher Cicero advocates for the dignity and value of growing old. But his ...

The Dalai Lama will turn 90 in July. Dalai Lamas, who functioned as the political and spiritual heads of Tibet for over three centuries, have been chosen as reincarnations. Given the threat of the ...

“It is far easier to improve on someone else’s work than to create that original body of data in the ... Tornadoes” covered the period 1880-1989. That book sold so well that Grazulis was ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Human composting takes surprisingly little to complete. A body is wrapped in a biodegradable shroud and placed in a long metal capsule — surrounded with a mixture of wood chips, mulch and ...

A new exhibition spotlights the ways in which cultures around the world have sought answers in the face of uncertainty ...

Delving into the unusual worlds of Reid Byers’s “Imaginary Books,” Paul Valéry’s “Monsieur Teste” and “The Anthologist’s ...

Tell us what changes, big or small, you want to make in 2025. By Shannon Doyne For the second year in a row, we invite students to document the local, offline communities that interest them ...

By Amanda Hess The Books Readers Loved in 2024 Memorable characters, delightful nonfiction and poignant novels stuck with people across the world. A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender ...

and other signals are collectively known as body language. Microexpressions (brief displays of emotion on the face), hand gestures, and posture all register in the human brain almost immediately ...