Why should you read “Crime and Punishment”?
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What drives someone to kill in cold blood? What goes through the murderer’s mind? And what kind...
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What drives someone to kill in cold blood? What goes through the murderer’s mind? And what kind...
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It’s late, pitch dark and a self-driving car winds down a narrow country road. Suddenly, three...
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Nanahuatl, weakest of the Aztec gods, sickly and covered in pimples, had been chosen to form a...
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The talented herbalist Xu Xian had just started his own medicine shop where he created remedies...
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What shape are your cells? Squishy cylinders? Jagged zig-zags? You might not spend a lot of time...
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This animation is part of our series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated...
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In 1937, in one of the worst civilian casualties of the Spanish Civil War, Fascist forces bombed...
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Wood is tough stuff, which is why we use it to hold up houses. If you’ve ever swung an axe...
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In the 1600s, the Dutch East India Company employed hundreds of ships to trade goods around the...
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In a talk that's by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, writer and podcaster Nora McInerny shares...
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You’ve promised to get your son the cutest creature in creation: the cuddly. It’s part of the...
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Arcane books of forbidden lore, disturbing secrets in the family bloodline, and terrors so...
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Are you a good golfer or a poor one? What just might help you improve? Your swing, your stance,...
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In 2012, a team of researchers set a world record, transmitting 1 petabit of data— that’s 10,000...
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Can you look at someone's face and know what they're feeling? Does everyone experience happiness,...
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You're lifting weights. The first time feels easy, but each lift takes more and more effort until...
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A rabbit attempts to play a church organ, while a knight fights a giant snail and a naked man...
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You’re on an airplane when you feel a sudden jolt. Outside your window nothing seems to be...
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Around the world there are more than 600 plant species that supplement a regular diet of...
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The human body is made up of about 30 trillion cells that carry a code which has been duplicated...
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The ocean is covered with literal waves of energy, and if we could convert this energy into...
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In 132 CE, Zhang Heng presented his latest invention: a large vase he claimed could tell them...
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Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke...
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In the 13th century, Genghis Khan embarked on a mission to take over Eurasia, swiftly conquering...