“Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and again different waters flow,” said pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitu, emphasizing the trickiness of navigating our way through an ...

By sneaking challenging questions into a comic strip, cartoonist Bill Watterson subtly prompts us to reexamine the world ...

Exploring one of science's most exciting frontiers, the book "Life in Space" bridges astrophysics and biology to uncover the ...

As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user ...

Ahead of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature’s joint meeting, publishers shared highlights ...

So we’re going to break down some ghost movies from around the world that demonstrate the tropes we’re so familiar with. And since they are ethereal beings, some ghosts can and will float in and out ...

A starseed is a term used to describe a child of the stars — a person who, like an old soul, has lived prior lives on Earth and possibly different planets and galaxies. They incarnate on Earth to ...

As I reflect on my vocation as a priest-professor of philosophy, I realize how fortunate I am. What a privilege it is to work ...

He’s written some of the most astonishing fiction of the past thirty years—works that defy explanation and linger like spells The post Gods, Dogs, and the Dark Magic of Toronto Novelist André Alexis ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Finneas talks the assignment to do his shortest piece of music ever — the few seconds of sound that will precede every Apple TV program from now on.

The Hasidim, or "pious ones" in Hebrew, belong to a special movement within Orthodox Judaism, a movement that, at its height in the first half of the nineteenth century, claimed the allegiance of ...