Seven Pairs of the Clean and Seven Pairs of the Unclean, Vladimir Mayakovsky Sketch, 1919 Famed Soviet poet, writer and artist Mayakovsky...

By Brenna R. Hassett Our species devotes a singular amount of time to an utterly unserious aspect of life: play. This begs the question:...

By Amy Pollick I remember the first time I observed my daughter pointing. We were at a neighborhood playgroup, a daily gathering of...

Ban the Atomic Bomb, Painting, Hans Grundig GDR, 1954 Grundig (1901 - 1958) was a German artist who joined the Communist Party in 1926....

Recipes of Soviet Ukraine #3 In 1980 a terrific little cookbook was published in the USSR looking at Soviet Ukrainian cookery and...

We need a broad comparative lens to produce useful explanations and narratives of our origins across time. An ancient skull excavated...

While the photos of singer David Bowie in the capital of the Soviet Union are cool enough, the story of how Bowie got to Moscow is really...

Flaherty parodying William F Buckley -- image via screenshot By Gabriel Haythornthwaite Joe Flaherty died appropriately enough this past...

To the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Say of them They knew no Spanish At first, and nothing of the arts of war At first: how to...

We all have a moral obligation to do the least possible harm to our planet, and that ethos has a name: veganics. Rene Cortin, CC BY-SA...

Whether in the realms of trade or agriculture, the operative principle was that debtors should not lose their economic liberty by being...

An interview with renowned archaeologist Gary M. Feinman on the emergence of a global data set from our past that humanity can use to...

Spectacular archeological finds reveal the true past of the first Europeans. Atapuerca, Gran Dolina excavation -- Malopez 21, CC BY-SA...

Recipes of Soviet Ukraine #2 Scalloped Fish In 1980 a terrific little cookbook was published in the USSR looking at Soviet Ukrainian...

Architects and everyday people are teaching each other to build spaces for community and climate resilience using local, natural...

A short film and narratives project “Stories for Life” seeks to bring about the shift in culture that humanity needs to survive....

Recipes of Soviet Ukraine #1 In 1980 a terrific little cookbook was published in the USSR looking at Soviet Ukrainian cookery and...

Archaeological Zone of Yaxchilan -- ZoRrO0880, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons By...

Young couple enjoying each other's company -- John Brighenti from Rockville, MD, United States, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/li...

India's Central Narmada Valley -- via Wikimedia Commons By Saurav Sarkar In December 1982, a geologist digging in India’s Central Narmada...