The wave of nostalgia that hits right after an awkward conversation isn't you dwelling on the past
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 28, 2026
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In 1990, a third of Americans said they had ten or more close friends. By 2021, that was one in eight
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 28, 2026
The New York Times reported that 38 people watched Kitty Genovese be stabbed to death in 1964 and did nothing
Aug 26, 2026
Researchers surveyed 393 mothers and found nearly nine in ten felt solely responsible for organising the family's schedule, and 65 per cent…
Aug 26, 2026
Australopithecus is not a single branch of the human family tree, a point its own field has long recognised, so why does a new paper argue…
Aug 25, 2026
Sixteen mummified people and a mummified canid accumulated in a single Egyptian side chamber just over five metres long over at least three…
Aug 24, 2026
China's population peaked at about 1.41 billion in 2021 and the UN projects it will fall to about 633 million by 2100
Aug 22, 2026
Laser scans find hundreds of hidden earthworks in the Amazon
Aug 21, 2026
Ancient DNA shows a 12,000-year-old embracing pair were both female
Aug 18, 2026
In 1984, peat cutters in Cheshire hit something rubbery with a mechanical shovel and pulled up a man who had been strangled, struck on the…
Aug 14, 2026
A Yale study found that people who searched the internet for an explanation felt smarter afterward
Aug 12, 2026
You can sit shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of strangers for eleven hours straight and breathe air that is, by most measures, cleaner…
By Kiran Journals · Aug 7, 2026