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Literature & Language

How to make a sad story funny

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Literature & Language

The twins who tricked the Maya gods of death

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Literature & Language

The Norse myth that inspired “The Lord of the Rings”

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Literature & Language

Can love and independence coexist?

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Literature & Language

The surprising origins of the word “lesbian”

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Linguistics

What makes a language... a language?

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Literature & Language

Who decides what’s in the dictionary?

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Thinking & Learning

This tool will help improve your critical thinking

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Philosophy & Religion

A brief history of the devil

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Thinking & Learning

How would you finish the sentence, “Imagine if…”?

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Literature & Language

Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak?

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Literature

The Japanese myth of the trickster raccoon

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Speaking

We can help you master public speaking

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Social Studies

Savitri and Satyavan: The legend of the princess who outwitted Death

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Literature

Why should you read Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”?

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Literature & Language

What happens when you die? A poetic inquiry

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Literature & Language

The myth of Loki and the deadly mistletoe

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Social Studies

The hidden treasures of Timbuktu

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Literature & Language

The myth of the stolen eyeballs

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Philosophy

Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions

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Literature & Language

"Jabberwocky": One of literature's best bits of nonsense

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Social Studies

The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar

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Literature & Language

Evolution’s great mystery: Language

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Anthropology

The myth of Ireland's two greatest warriors

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