Posted on December 6, 2022 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Cutting-edge technology has revealed 1,300-year-old marginalia in a religious text. The Guardian reports that researchers at the Bodleian Library in...
Posted on December 5, 2022 at 9:51 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The Netflix adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover has been out for a few weeks now ... so cue the tie-in...
Posted on November 29, 2022 at 3:06 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Even if you haven't read Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, you've likely encountered its ideas or even a...
Posted on November 23, 2022 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Listicles are loved by many, and probably scorned by an equal number of people. So the headline "What If… Listicles...
Posted on November 22, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Who's the first named author in human history? You might guess one of the ancient Greeks — and you'd be...
Posted on November 21, 2022 at 3:16 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Those of you who love languages and history are in luck. El Pais reports that researchers believe they've found the...
Posted on November 9, 2022 at 3:57 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
In other news of incredibly old writing ... the New York Times previewed a book on one specific example a...
Posted on November 9, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here's new fodder for small talk when you run out of weather and traffic commentary: the subject of the oldest...
Posted on November 1, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
We've lost two historians and a poet in the past few weeks. Both Thomas Cahill and Msgr. John P. Meier...
Posted on October 14, 2022 at 7:44 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Two newly examined documents may reverse a 150-year-old perception of Geoffrey Chaucer as a rapist. The New York Times reports...
