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Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with 28,000 other fossils. The skull cap of 'Java Man' was discovered by Eugène ...

How often do we stop to think about the meaning of life? If you’re like me, probably not much. Even though I may feel a vague sense of anxiety around how my life is unfolding and the inevitability of ...

Over 2,500 years ago, Aristotle said, “Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” I think Aristotle got it right. Happiness is made up of two ingredients: ...

The earliest mention of ‘abracadabra’ comes from a text in the second century A.D., which used the term as a treatment for fevers. A 13th-century manuscript preserves Quintus Serenus Sammonicus’ ...

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Colin N. Waters is an honorary professor of geology at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. On 5 March 2024, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) — the body responsible for ...

Yeet: A fluffy slang word with two definitions. Kids are using “yeet” to express themselves in two ways, according to Merriam-Webster. Yeet is a verb that means to throw something hard without caring ...

“We express our renewed availability to be sent into the Lord’s vineyard, for the greater service of the Church and the greater glory of God.” —35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, ...

The study is based on words only in English. But it’s a step along the way to working out how the brain stores words in its language library, says neurosurgeon Ziv Williams at the Massachusetts ...