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The search for America: the family

Huston Smith (1919-2016) was one of the preeminent 20th-century scholars of religion and comparative philosophy in the US. His distinguished...

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The replica and the original

By 1997, Moscow’s skyline was transformed when a vast golden dome, long absent, rose once again over the city. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour...

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Elizabeth Kostina

Homo crustaceous

No one paid much attention when an obscure biology journal published an article in 2017 about ‘the evolutionary processes which led to a crab-like...

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Michael Garfield

Primero, sueño

In the United States, a large share of fruit and vegetable production comes from California, where the agricultural industry relies heavily on...

03.07.2025 4

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From scattered traces

On 6 April 1667, a powerful earthquake devastated Dubrovnik, claiming at least 3,000 lives and destroying most of the city’s buildings. Among the...

03.07.2025 2

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Luka Boršić

The lights of Flushing

On the coast of Cornwall in southwest England lies the picturesque village of Flushing, shaped by its fishing heritage and close-knit community. In...

02.07.2025 5

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Rethinking adult ADHD

In late 2023, while taking a break at a conference in Baltimore, I shared a New York Times chart, based on detailed census records, with a...

01.07.2025 4

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Margaret Sibley