Paul Bowles and the Hypnotic Clamor of Morocco
The Forgotten Female Action Stars of the 1910s
Why We’re Hardwired to Hate Uncertainty
Writers Who Spied: The Unsurprising Link Between Writing and Espionage
Australia’s Other Flying Doctors: The Spirits of Aboriginal Bush Healers
Thomas De Quincey and the Deadly Rivalries of 19th Century Magazines
Burke & Hare in the 21st Century
Crossing Over: How Science Is Redefining Life and Death
Goat Rituals and Tree-Trunk Gravestones: The Peculiar History of Life Insurance
CT Scan Shows Pharaoh Ramses III Was Murdered By Multiple Assassins
Satan and the Harrowing of Hell
John Gray on Philip K. Dick: Lost In the Mulitverse of History
The Dominatrix Class That Changed My Life
Downwinders: Life Near Nuclear Explosions
Nights of Terror, Days of Weird: Selected Letters of Terry Southern
Is the Future Award-Winning Novelist a Writing Robot?
The Suicide Note as Literary Genre
Bolivia’s Cholitas: Female Wrestlers Put Discrimination in a Stranglehold
Intelligent Machines Might Want to Become Biological Again
Further Adventures in Human Curiosity
The Strange Tale of Echo, the Parrot Who Saw Too Much
Microsoft Deletes ‘Teen Girl’ AI After It Becomes a Hitler-Loving Sex Robot After 24 Hours
That Time an NFL Player Saw a UFO
My Time as a UFO Investigator for the Government
Do Psychedelic Drug Laws Violate Human Rights?
Not Just Fluffy Bunnies: The Dark Side of Beatrix Potter
The Beautiful Proto-Feminist Snark of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia
Can Drug Trips Be Religious? Rabbis Take ‘Shrooms for Science
Maha Shivratri: Why CERN Has a Statue of Lord Shiva
Science May Scoff, But Rice Professor and Best-Selling Author Believe the Inexplicable Does Occur
Erotic Blooms: The Sex Appeal of Flowers
Quest for the Real Life Treasures of Atari’s Swordquest
The Secret History of the Girl Detective
Interactive Cannibal Exhibit Comes to San Diego’s Museum of Man
Cat Funerals in the Victorian Era
Ancient Egyptian Boat Discovered Near Pyramids
Capturing the Treasured Wisdom of Female Shamans in Russia
Mysterious Books Found In Dump Reveal Secret Writings of NYZMA
The Largest Gathering of Medievalists Happens Every Year in Kalamazoo
Learning to Love Brutalist Architecture
Eyes Wide Shut: How to Cope with Night Terrors
Earth Is Made Up of Two Planets
The Afro-Nauts: African Cinema and the Rise of Lo-Fi Sci-Fi
Changes in Climate Have Always Made Things Worse for (Accused) Witches
Knight Fights: Inside the Strange and Savage World of Medieval MMA
The Secret Meaning of Ghost Stories
“Shakespearonomics”– How Scientists Are Unlocking the Secrets of the Bard
Ancient ‘Dragon’ Found in Wales
Green Sentimentalists Forget Something: Nature is Brutal
The Death of the Gravedigger by Carlos Schwabe
The History of Beheadings is the History of Political Debates Ending Poorly
Overachieving Japanese Farmers Make Terrifying Scarecrows
Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World?
Every Recording of Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie 1 Played at the Same Time
Chastity Belts: The Odd Truth About Locking Up Women’s Genitalia
The Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Abilities
The Psychical Research Foundation Needs Sitters
The Mysterious Folk Art of America’s Secret Societies
We Are the Weirdos: How Witches Went from Evil Outcasts to Feminist Heros
User Testing that Mixes Cocktails and Coding
Something We Already Knew: Wearing Black Makes You Appear More Confident, Attractive and Intelligent
Woody Allen’s An Irrational Man
Welcome to Earth: Cuba’s ‘Special Period’ Gets the Sci-Fi Treatment
The Lessons of Out of Body Experiences
Why Can’t We Turn Our Eyes Away from the Grotesque and the Macabre?
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