Social Sciences
For 84 years, textbooks called Gregor Mendel's pea-plant data suspiciously perfect, after a statistician said the numbers were "too good to…
By The Long View · Aug 28, 2026
August 2026
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Earth & Environment
No country would be truly safe if nuclear war went all the way. But Australia begins with advantages few others can match
By The Long View · Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
Steven Spielberg was rejected by USC’s film school because his grades were not good enough
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The Hawthorne effect is named after a pattern in 1920s factory lighting data that nobody checked against the records for eighty years
By The Long View · Aug 28, 2026
Science
The Great Pyramid of Giza weighs roughly eighteen times as much as the Empire State Building
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Integrity does grow in families, but not the way strong family principles suggests
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
Eighteenth-century scholars destroyed hundreds of Herculaneum scrolls trying to prise them open, because the eruption that buried the…
By Lab Report · Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Every autumn in northern Japan, carrion crows in the city of Sendai drop walnuts onto pedestrian crossings, wait for cars to crush the…
By The Long View · Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
South Korea led the world in instant-noodle consumption per person from 2013 through 2020, before Vietnam overtook it in 2021 with an…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026
Life
Scientists long considered the brain one of the first organs to disappear after death
By The Long View · Aug 28, 2026
Social Sciences
The wave of nostalgia that hits right after an awkward conversation isn't you dwelling on the past
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life”
By Jeanette Brown · Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Being smart does not protect you from bias, and can quietly make it worse
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 28, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Perfect pitch was long thought to require a rare predisposition and musical training in early childhood
By Mind & Matter · Aug 28, 2026