One would think that there is no aspect of the brain’s multitudinous biochemical majesty that lies outside of the interest of neuroscientists. There is an emba...
Our concept of living in a universe with a knowable and predictable future has taken two stunning blows in the last century, first from quantum mechanics in th...
Clara Barton was on this planet for nine decades, and spent roughly seven of those locked in institutional struggles that would have broken and gutted a person...
The life of Catherine de Parthenay (1554-1631) was dominated by national religious conflict and her decision to take a pivotal role of resistance at the all-co...
Back in the age when historians favored hard and fast lines between different Eras of world history, 1543 stood as the gold standard boundary between the Old w...
An arrow hits a target as a fifteen year old girl on a horse goes galloping victoriously by. It is not an unusual sight in late eighteenth century China ...
When Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) rewrote our conception of how heavenly bodies move by replacing the ideal and eternal circles of classical philosophy with ell...
When you headed out into the field as a 19th century ornithologist, you had one of two things in mind as to what constituted your profession: (1) to look for b...
Our interactions with our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, the chimpanzees, have rarely been entirely honorable. We dress them up in amusing hats, teac...