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Plato's Allegory of the Cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604. Source: Wikimedia Commons The Allegory of the Cave (circa 380 BCE) Human beings spend all their lives in an ...
A humanities education is vital in this polarized world. But students need to read the books.
Artificial intelligence is transforming “the way we think about the world, the way that we communicate [and] our political culture in a democracy,” Greece’s former prime minister George Papandreou ...
Learning to love the existence of all life on earth helped Mari Andrew let go of the blame she put on herself and her body.
A remarkable book is being released in the U.S. today. Tyger by SF Said won the British Book Award for Children’s Fiction Book of the Year when it was published in the U.K. in ...
Greek philosopher Plato's code has been broken, according to a historian who is a faculty member at the University of ...
For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...
It’s called the Cave of Crystals, and while it's easily one of the most stunning places ever discovered, it’s also one of the most dangerous.
A 5,000-year-old rock engraving found in a cave in the 'Land of Gold' could rewrite the history of ancient Egypt as it could reveal the secrets of the earliest days of the first dynasty ...
Tassili n'Ajjer Located in a strange lunar landscape of great geological interest, this site has one of the most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world.