Tag: History
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Loading…Edinburgh Universityâs âskull roomâ highlights its complicated history with racist science
Skulls were collected from all over the world because of some academicsâ fascination with phrenology, the discredited belief that skull shape denoted intelligence
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From scattered traces
How the ideas circulating among one noblewomanâs coterie in 16th-century Dubrovnik anticipated modern feminist thought
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Story Update: “The Lost Prince of Yacht Rock” Finally Gets His Encore
In 1978 he was musicâs next big thing. Then his album bombed, he began a long slide into obscurity, and a bizarre fraud sent him to prison. Dane Donohue’s second act has been 47 years in the making.
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The French liar
René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?
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How I Solved the Century-Old Mystery of a Miraculous Shipwreck Survivor
In a disaster worse than the Titanic, it was believed a young man swam over six kilometres to safety. It didnât add up
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The magic of through running
Commuter trains often stop at the edge of cities. Short tunnels can link them up, creating metro networks for a fraction of the cost of building them from scratch.
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The Person in the Ape
A history of humans trying and failing to understand the minds of apes.