For the ancients, understanding was an end in itself. For the moderns, it became a means to change the world.

A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

In Bethel’s Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science—lovingly called the HiPPos—you’ll learn in a welcoming community of intellectually curious students and professors who will invest ...

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The core principle of circular economy underlies the need for putting the scarce and limited resources to the maximum use by people. It requires people to recycle what is being used on one side and ...

THESE volumes will be valued by all those who knew or who passed under the influence of the distinguished professor who held the chair of English first at Cardiff, then at Newcastle, and later at ...

I’ve traveled some in my life (to about 15 different countries), having been to Europe and Asia, though never Africa, South America, or Australia. I’ve lived most of the last 15 years in Asia, spent a ...

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...

Yoga is a mind and body practice that combines movement, meditation, and breathing. People practice yoga for many reasons, from physical fitness to spiritual enlightenment. Yoga is an ancient practice ...

A conversation with the German theorist about the history of Western philosophy and more. In 2019, Jürgen Habermas—perhaps Europe’s most well-known living philosopher—published his long-awaited Auch ...