On May 28, 2026, the last of the progenitors of modern Urdu poetry, Bashir Badr, left the grand mushaira of the living and ...

In the spring of 1918, as American soldiers prepared to go "over the top" for the first time during World War I, a handful of army physicians began noticing a strange sickness that began to grip ...

My sister and I told my mother we were throwing her a party for her 90th birthday. “Not everyone knows I’m 90!” she said. “Well, it’s good we tell them,” I said. “We told everyone that Dad turned 90 ...

Defense mechanisms are unconscious strategies whereby people protect themselves from anxious thoughts or feelings. Defense mechanisms aren’t inherently bad—they can allow people to navigate painful ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. Carrie Classon's memoir is called "Blue Yarn." Learn more at CarrieClasson.com.

The growth of passive investing has stimulated academic and policy interest in how it affects asset prices and the real economy. Hao Jiang, Dimitri Vayanos, and Lu Zheng, authors of the March 2025 ...

My brilliant and wonderful PhD student Adrián Doña Mateo and I have just arXived a new paper: Adrián Doña Mateo and Tom Leinster. Magnitude homology equivalence of Euclidean sets. arXiv:2406.11722, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the orchestrators of the terrorist attack at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall aimed to “destroy the unity” of Russians, reports Interfax. Putin made the remarks ...