The history of quarantine shows the many borrowed ideas from various religions that helped shape the first quarantine measure enacted in 1377.
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6,600-year-old gravesites in Poland suggest wealth gap existed earlier than thought
A team of researchers from Sweden, the U.S., Poland and the U.K. has found evidence that suggests the wealth gap in human communities goes back at least 6,600 years. In their paper published in the journal Antiquity, the group describes their study of skeletons in an ancient Polish graveyard and what they found.
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Nagasaki – why did the US drop the second bomb?
The first atom bomb destroyed Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Just three days later, a second atom bomb flattened the city of Nagasaki, even though Japan had long been ready to capitulate.
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Test positivity rate: How this one figure explains that the US isn’t doing enough testing yet
Test positivity rates measure the success of a testing program. Even though the US performs a huge number of tests, high test positivity rates across the country show that that it still isn't enough.
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‘Askers’ vs. ‘Guessers’
In Ask Culture it's OK to ask for anything at all, but you gotta realize you might get no for an answer. In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes.
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Why America Is Afraid of TikTok
The company’s founder says in an interview that he wants it to be “a window” on the world. A Republican senator says it is a “Trojan horse.”
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Secondary school textbooks teach our kids the myth that Aboriginal Australians were nomadic hunter-gatherers
In his book Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe writes that settler Australians wilfully misunderstood, hid and destroyed evidence of Aboriginal Australians’ farming practices.
My analysis of secondary school textbooks shows this behaviour isn’t restricted to the past — it is ongoing.
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The Invention of the Police
Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
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Bats: The hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will look beyond China
The virus may have been born in South-East Asia. An intriguing observation: the low incidence of covid-19 in South-East Asia, particularly in Vietnam despite no lockdowns.
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‘It took genius to chisel these buttocks’ – the top 10 bottoms in art, chosen by our critic
They are ‘the founding curves of the Renaissance’. As Yorkshire Museum calls on collections worldwide to display their best behinds to boost attendance after coronavirus, we name our favourites.
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