One hundred years after his birth, the French philosopher remains hugely influential, both revered and reviled for ideas that ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

pt. 1. The age of mankind in prospect. Our place in nature -- Ancestors in the trees -- Footsteps of the earliest ape-men -- Branches on the human tree -- Hunters or scavengers? -- pt. 2. The age of ...

A new study from the University of Warwick suggests that the rhythm of human laughter has remained surprisingly consistent for at least 15 million years. By comparing the laughter of humans and other ...

In fact, when they were tickled, laughter from both apes and humans was isochronous, meaning that the laughs followed a rhythmic pattern. In other words, the same amount of time passed between each ...

This summer, it’s also a major motion picture, starring Matt Damon as the wily, beleaguered Bronze Age hero Odysseus, a ...

Humans have long taken each other at face value. Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher, supposedly chose his pupils based on ...

But I found in Augustine an invitation into exploring what the true meaning of life could be. Read our latest issue or browse ...

Homer still matters, argues Adam Nicolson in The Mighty Dead, a great primer to Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of the ...

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan is one of those epic fantasy series that is often spoken of in the same breath as The Lord of the Rings. It is a story filled with its own dramatic history, lands, ...

The expected vote is the total number of votes that are expected in a given race once all votes are counted. This number is an estimate and is based on several different factors, including information ...