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From accidental trips in London parks to the hallucinatory landscapes of ''Alice in Wonderland'', magic mushrooms shaped folklore and visions of fairyland in 19th-century Britain.
By: Mike Jay
Anthropologists have recognized the characteristic patterns of butchery on human remains in archaeological sites from around the world, across huge swathes of time.
By: Brenna R. Hassett
By: William Wells Brown
Popular science books invited families—especially children—to explore acoustics through hands-on experiments, transforming sound from an invisible mystery into something that could be observed, understood, and enjoyed.
By: Lucas Thompson
A famous photographic hoax illustrates how confirmation bias and flawed investigation can lead people to misinterpret evidence and accept extraordinary claims.
By: Mary Losure
A Scottish artist and theorist argued that the same principles governing musical harmony also determine beauty in architecture, color, geometry, and the human form, revealing how music influenced 19th-century theories of aesthetics and perception.
By: Carmel Raz
Twin research sheds light on genetics, behavior, and evolutionary psychology, helping us understand human nature and individual differences.
By: Nancy L. Segal, PhD
It’s no coincidence that many states that have passed new laws forbidding the teaching of “divisive” topics are the same ones undermining and privatizing public schools.
By: Jeff Bryant
In the early 1900s, a St. Louis woman claimed a long-dead Puritan spirit dictated novels, poems, and plays through a Ouija board, raising enduring questions about authorship, spiritualism, automatic writing, and literary history.
By: Ed Simon
Jacques Collin de Plancy’s ''Dictionnaire infernal'' blends Enlightenment rationalism with occult superstition, providing detailed entries and striking illustrations of Hell’s most infamous demons, from Astaroth to Belphégor.
By: Ed Simon