Mark Gatiss stars in a series he created as a London bookseller in 1946 with a talent for solving mysteries.

It is a great example of aphoristic intelligence at work. It makes us reconsider what we’re doing, or not doing, with our ...

During the holidays, we tend to think big—our minds drifting to bright toys, large boxes, and elaborate gadgets. However, as a pediatrician, I know that some of the most transformative gifts for young ...

When you think about it, civilisation really has not been around all that long. The Ice Age ended a mere 12,000 years ago, and what we call ‘civilisation’ was based on a series of embedded ...

When Samuel Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English Language” was finally published in 1755, it contained a definition that impishly illustrated the painstaking labor involved in completing such an ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. In the 1970s, before Morrison was world-famous for her fiction, she worked at Random ...

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Analytic Support Officers (ASOs) are vital force multipliers in defensive cyber operations. They represent the apex of expertise within the Cyber Mission Force. Leveraging deep technical knowledge and ...

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Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...

Surprise occurs in many forms. Many think of it in terms of a surprise attack, but it occurs in other dimensions. The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is a good example: the attack was ...