Across deserts, temples, burial caves, and mountain shrines, archaeologists keep stumbling on the same unsettling pattern: the deeper we dig into the ancient world, the less sure we are that we understand how it really worked. For every mystery that radiocarbon dates or DNA sequencing seems to solve, another appears in the form of ...
We knock on wood, avoid walking under ladders, and hesitate before saying something might finally be going well – little rituals that feel almost automatic, yet oddly powerful. For a supposedly rational, science-based society, we’re remarkably willing to behave as if invisible forces are paying attention. Psychologists argue that these habits give us a ...
We like to think of ourselves as thoroughly modern, guided by data, algorithms, and peer-reviewed studies, yet so many of our deepest assumptions come from people who lived thousands of years before smart phones, steam engines, or even writing in some cases. Under the surface of our politics, our health choices, our sense of ...
