The Phaistos Disc has been treated for more than a century as one of archaeology’s great undeciphered “texts.” But a new study argues the mystery may be both simpler and stranger than a lost language.

Relief of Osiris from the Temple of Seti I, Abydos, Egypt. According to Egyptian mythology, Egypt’s first king Osiris sailed around the world spreading knowledge, exactly like the Feathered Serpent ...

Larry Ellison, who was raised in a Reform Jewish home by his adoptive Jewish parents, has long been a donor to pro-Israel and ...

Common Sense was a provocation in 1776. Maybe it’s the provocation we need now. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, ...

Common Sense,” the pamphlet that helped spark the American Revolution, turns 250 this month. But despite its author’s ...

Whether or not the Trump administration has found a loophole in Wong Kim Ark, the court decided this issue with some finality ...

There are some names that don't fit into those categories and are more one-off references. The Gestral Ono Puncho is a ...

It can be surprising to discover that the English language sometimes has pleasant surprises in words pronounced one way but meaning something entirely different. "Pulchritude" is one such word. Upon ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture added a page to the space history books today by sending the first wheelchair user into space. “It was the coolest experience,” said Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, a ...

There are words that exist to be used, and words that exist to be carried. Myrrh is not conversational. It does not belong to small talk or modern efficiency. It belongs to a time when language ...

Here’s how pinning a utopian vision for AI on LLMs kicked off the hype cycle that’s causing fears of a bubble today. Each time you’ve heard a borderline outlandish idea of what AI will be capable of, ...

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