Shortly after the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris on July 14, 1789, the English political theorist Edmund Burke wrote a letter to Lord Charlemont, the first president of the Royal Irish Academy.
"Paisa vasool" is a mindset that connects an incredibly diverse country, where locals find value in everything and make the most of every interaction. It's not about how much we pay for something, but instead how much we get out of it
After first appearing in the religious art of ancient Iran, the disc halo migrated across cultures at an astonishing pace, aided by trade on the Silk Roads.
Artificial intelligence could lead to an Orwellian future if laws to protect the public aren't enacted soon, according to Microsoft President Brad Smith.
The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo have been odd, to say the least. Between the spectator-less stadiums in the $15.4 billion sprawling facilities and the constant covid-19 bans and quarantines, these have not been typical Olympic games.
The issue of inaccessible period supplies has only been made more dire during the pandemic.
The civic value of freedom of speech, enshrined in the First Amendment and woven throughout American culture, is often called the bedrock of liberty, the first principle on which all other political rights derive.
We humans have been evolving for millions of years and — as any good biologist will tell you — in response to pressures in our environment, we are evolving still.
Xi Jinping is a man on a mission.
It seemed like a typical story of Chinese corruption.
The death of the dinosaurs was just one of five global events that saw millions of species wiped out.
The space economy won't just generate untold wealth — it will make Earth's environment greener.
Why future generations may prefer floating above Venus to colonizing Mars.
Every state recognizes brain death. But rules vary, and the true line separating life from death is ambiguous as ever.
Why does man create?
Could right now be the most influential time ever? What is the best word to describe our present moment? You might be tempted to reach for “unprecedented”, or perhaps “extraordinary”.
U.S.-UK relations aren’t as strong as you may think. The United States issued the United Kingdom an unprecedented rebuke on the eve of a critical international summit, the Times of London reported on June 10. America’s top diplomat in London, Yael Lampert, sent Britain a “demarche,” accusing London of undermining the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. A demarche is a formal reprimand defined by the U.S. State Department as “a request or intercession with a foreign official, e.g. a request for support of a policy or a protest about the host government’s policy.” Demarches are normally reserved as criticisms of geopolitical adversaries, like Russia and China. The Times said the rebuke was “without recent precedent.”
The Covid-19 pandemic took much of the world by surprise. But not everyone.
On the eve of the Hindu festival of Holi this year, 10 men gathered outside a jewelry shop in the north Indian city of Kanpur carrying effigies.
For decades, cosmologists have wondered if the large-scale structure of the universe is a fractal — that is, if it looks the same no matter how large the scale.
