In 1922, King Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered, revealing much information about the ancient Egyptians. He is the most famous of all the Egyptian kings we know of. But even today, experts are still ...

Matthew C. Yee, an ensemble member at Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company, is one of the city’s most interesting artists. Craggily handsome, a skilled guitarist and both a lively writer and a ...

On the ship I boarded at the bottom of Argentina with the three men I love most, I put my socks in a drawer, my sweaters on a shelf and my mother’s ashes in the cupboard above t ...

Finding the right words to describe music is notoriously hard. Finding words which are excruciatingly wrong is really easy: you just ask AI to do the job. Here’s an example: ...

A Dutch psychiatrist gave lethal injections to patients with mental suffering, some of them teenagers. Does that make him a hero—or something else?

A police officer was clinically dead for 45 minutes, far longer than most near-death cases. After doctors brought him back, he began sharing what he says he experienced during that time when his body ...

Elderly care takes many forms. The costliest is paid long-term care: living at a nursing home or hiring a caretaker at your ...

German philosopher Juergen Habermas, one of the world’s most influential thinkers and a leading voice in shaping postwar German thought, has died at age 96.

In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best ...

In Thailand, people are invited to attend a 3-day expo called “Death Fest,” in which speakers talk about the practical ...