In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

In 1621, Richard Warren scuffled for survival on the western edge of the North Atlantic along with the small group of ...

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Patchen Barss’s The Impossible Man is a warts-and-all portrait of Roger Penrose, his Nobel Prize-winning work and his fraught personal life ...

Highlighting Calvin's wild imagination and creator Bill Watterson's clever wit, the Calvin & Hobbes comic strips are loaded ...

The actress, screenwriter, and novelist’s reviews and essays from 1918-19 display a comprehensive grasp of movie art and a ...

Wehner: Well, that leads into a new set of questions. The central argument of “The Widening of God’s Mercy” is that God often ...

Published since September 1843 to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy ...

Should art museums be showing art history? Or cultural history, which isn't the same thing? Getty and LACMA exhibitions give ...