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

Collectors with a love of medical history are bidding up the price of arcane texts; ‘I don’t need a car, but I certainly need ...

Simply put, the National Museum of Health and Medicine offers macabre and magic all at once — perfect for an autumn night. Located near Washington DC, with its sleek modernist exterior and the world’s ...

Here are 10 books that stood out ... with a tale of body horror, a yarn about an immortal being ruling over a postapocalyptic world, a chronicle of human cruelty and more, making this a collection ...

“By understanding other people who have left their religion, we can gain a better understanding of some of the deeper needs we humans share and how we address core questions of being human ... to be a ...

Individual cells in your body are constantly being replaced as they ... These approaches allow scientists to study human organs during health and disease at a level of accuracy that was impossible ...

However, with changing environments and modern processed diets altering the way our organs function on a day-to-day basis, contemporary human beings ... and the main body of the book is split ...

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 ...

The Met’s first master plan, developed by Calvert Vaux in 1880, oriented the building toward Central Park ... “We want to create an immersive experience and establish a relationship between the human ...

With the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice, Jeremy Musson considers the abiding presence 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 ...

Kathy Nadeau, who has become known in historical reenactment circles for crafting quality period uniforms and costumes, also getting her work placed in museums.