Much of what we think is new is old. It was in 1852 that Augustus T. Dowd, in search of a grizzly, stumbled across bigger game: a towering tree to be named a sequoia, after the famous Californian ...

This medieval “Tree of Life” works as a mnemonic memory aid (Image: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University) From studying the bible to visualising computer storage, Manuel ...

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After two years of considerable improvement, Americans' knowledge of some basic facts about their government has fallen to earlier levels, with less than ...

THE publishers of this new composite book by twenty-two able and well-informed writers are fully justified for part of the large claim they make for it as the “cheapest book of our generation” and the ...