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Fasting—going without food intentionally for a set period of time—has a long, fascinating history from ancient times…

Pipe Dreams traces a history long flushed from many of our imaginations, the miracle (and the failure) of the porcelain…

The toilet, often overlooked, represents both a modern miracle in sanitation and a significant global failure, as nearly…

A practical guide to understanding numbers and data from bestselling author Chip Heath. How much bigger is a billion…

Butts, butts, butts. Whatever you think of them, there's no doubt that humans have a rather strange relationship with…

In today's world, it is incredibly easy to get stuck in a cycle of endless response, running from one emergency to the…

The ACLU has been unquestionably one of the most important legal activism groups in America over the past hundred…