Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, with other members of his unit. Credit: Germany Army. By Ingrid Sharp, University of Leeds The idea of a war hero is still strong in the UK and in the…

The Slave Trade painted by a French abolitionist artist. By Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas People think they know everything about slavery in the United States, but they don’t. They think…

Ancient Greeks used onions as a performance-enhancing drug. Roman gladiators ate ashes and vegetables. If common-sense does not tell us that there was no ancient civilization with futuristic…

It is often believed that masculine men and more feminine women were prized in ancient societies and that modern culture is beyond gender simplifications, but a team of psychologists,…

Credit: EPA By Rob MacKenzie, University of Birmingham To exaggerate is human, and scientists are human. Exaggeration and the complementary art of simplification are the basic rhetorical tools of…

Violent rhetoric appeals to disaffected young men because it gives them a challenge to express aggression as 'proof' of manhood. Credit: Sillouetted children playing as soldiers/Shutterstock By David…

"Keeping up with the Joneses" is a colloquialism for developing world desire to have the same or better status in society than peers. If someone gets a new car, you get a new car. In some people,…

was the title of a history book I had as a boy.  Good things, in their way — without them, I wouldn’t be able to sit here talking to you all and meeting some very interesting people online.…

Evidence shows children are getting less unsupervised time outdoors. Credit: Brian Yap (葉)/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Shelby Gull Laird and Laura McFarland-Piazza Earlier this year, an American mother was…

In 1908 the famously plump Venus of Willendorf, thought to be a symbol of fecundity, was discovered during an excavation near the Austrian town of Melk. It has been dated to 30,000 years ago and is…