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As Turner lay dying, he asked to see sunlight. Renoir demanded a pencil. For many artists, the final chapter is the most creative
The logbook is written from the white perspective, and its horrors are plain to see.
Experiencing multiple stressors triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic—such as unemployment—and COVID-19-related media consumption are directly linked to rising acute stress and depressive symptoms...
Little can compare to the healing power of silence
Irish-American mogul’s philanthropic foundation runs out of cash after 38 years
The company behind them, Keen, is including artwork from the late Jerry Garcia.
Buying futures contracts may help businesses reliant on water keep prices down.
Far fewer adolescents in big cities are drinking alcohol. Four out of ten 13- to 17-year-olds reported being drunk in 2002. In 2015 that percentage had declined by half. A big part of the reason...
Reading linguistic thought directly from the brain has brought us closer to answering an age-old question — and has opened the door to many more.
Despite heavy coverage of every positive test, remarkably few serious cases have been recorded among pro athletes.
Some countries have experimented with alcohol prohibition during the pandemic to keep hospitals emptier. What was the impact?
Veteran hedge-fund manager says capitalists don’t divide the economic pie well, so the system isn’t working effectively for all.
By tracking amphibian songs, citizen scientists are helping us understand what's happening to our environment
Most adults retreat into a personal, quiet world inside their heads when they are reading, but we may be missing out on some vital benefits when we do this.
Emma Pickles This young girl has found a novel way to eat more fruit while encouraging her creative side. Twelve-year-old Emma ...
A recent examination of media bias on Facebook caught our eye here at AllSides.
Had any other attorney general given the speech Barr gave this week, nobody would have noticed. In the context of his recent actions, Barr’s words amount to a defense of politicized justice.
How we perceive the senses changes in different historical, political, and cultural contexts. Sensory historians ask what people smelled, touched and tasted – all to learn more about the past.
Pieter Kroonenberg, a Dutch statistician, discovered a nonexistent paper that had been cited more than 400 times.
A global hacking collective known as APT41 has been accused by US authorities of targeting company servers for ransom, compromising government networks and spying on Hong Kong activists. Seven...
You probably recognize these right off the bat: Andrew, Katrina, Sandy and Sally. But when and why did we start giving hurricanes names?
Once again, the Brazilian Amazon is in flames
You don’t have to sanitize your apples anymore, but you do have to wear a mask
In this set of 10 facts, Wendy Edelberg, Kristen Broady, Lauren Bauer, and Jimmy O’Donnell assess the extent of these economic damages and provide an overview of existing policy interventions.
Amazon bans injectable drugs, but enforcement failures have led to a swell of listings for unproven performance enhancing peptides
Kodak detected the first atomic bomb before anyone else figured it out. Then they made a deal not to tell anyone. Thanks to HBO Max, and their new show raise...
So many of us externalise the need for calm, peace and simplicity by romanticising about escaping to a “cabin in the woods” that even photographs of such idealised idylls have become big business....
Adding a few paragraphs and photos can boost revenue by £100,000 for small cities
Likely survival rates for these men were judged to be as low as 12 days, which may be why OBs were sometimes referred to as 'Suicide Bunkers'.
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A VICE survey of 4,000 people around the world suggests that we may be having less sex, but we're more communicative—and falling more deeply in love.
Our feline friends are killing billions of birds every year. A fan of both animals believes there are humane solutions.
When cybersecurity reporter Danny Palmer found his card was apparently used on another continent, he set out to discover more.
Experts have been warning for years that this would happen
*Filmed before the pandemic* VICE’s Carla Parmenter meets the Dutch Franquista, Tom De Groot who has turned his home in Amsterdam into a shrine to the Spanis...
In order to better understand the blast and thermal effects of a nuclear bomb, the US dropped a 16-kiloton bomb on a fake town in the middle...