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Divine dividends

Stepping out of a sleek office tower in Shanghai, I hear a bell ringing from Jing’an Temple. In the shadow of steel and glass stands a...

Zhangxin (Frank) Liu

A very basic yet, from our perspective, easy to overlook quality of the Universe is that everything is in motion, all the time. Even things that...

In 1979, a death-defying English handyman named Fred Dibnah (1938-2004) became something of a national folk hero after the BAFTA-winning...

In a dark library lit by a single lamp, four men, a young woman and three children crowd around a circular dais. They are staring at a clockwork...

Nina Gualinga is a Kichwa environmental and Indigenous rights activist from Sarayaku, a community in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In Waska, the...

If you happened to be at the right place in southern Mexico in the early 1980s, you might have encountered a strange-looking hill poking up from a...

It was November 2008, right before the holidays, when the police knocked on Katie Brandt’s door. Mike Brandt, 29, had left their small...