Food occupies an unusual place in our lives. It’s a basic human necessity, of course, but there’s so much more to it.…
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“Ruthless,” “witty,” and “scheming” are only a few of the words that describe the first female emperor of China, Wu Zetian. Despite…
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The candy that “melts in your mouth, not in your hand.” We all recognize that famous tagline for M&M’S. But there is…
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New York. They call it the Big Apple because of racing. It was the big city with the big prizes and stable…
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Animals surprise people and scientists continuously. Ongoing research keeps revealing things we didn’t know about specific creatures and some of these findings…
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The earliest period of US history has been so mythologized that it is sometimes hard to get a grip on what life…
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For centuries, extremes of human terror have had two broad effects on human bodies. At one level fear has caused people to…
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Legend has it that a young girl once tried to save a panda from being attacked by a leopard. Giant pandas were…
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Getting sick can be scary, especially when you’ve been infected with something that’s messing with your private parts—like gonorrhea, the second most…
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The ancient Romans are well-known for keeping an abundance of written records about their society. Sometimes, it almost seems as though we…