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The Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, has been in Ireland since the 17th century. William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, was imprisoned in Cork for his beliefs. Clara Pierre traces their roots.

Hollywood has traditionally been a pulpit for performative activism, where celebrities deliver political sermons and broadcast their virtue by endorsing causes in a manner that requires nothing more than talk. The biggest surprise at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony will be if no one onstage demands more equity and inclusion in movies, denounces white male privilege, delivers a lecture on police brutality, or declines to accept an Oscar, declaring the muscular, sword-wielding statuette an o...

If I had to describe the mission, the point, the raison d'etre of the entire field of psychology in just one sentence, I would say: Psychology aims to determine the relative extents to which biology and experience determine cognition and behavior." And, as you might expect, there are widely differing schools of thought.

In the most recent Ponderings, we expanded our knowledge of exploring, canoeing and, to a certain extent, walking – hiking. Central to that tale were Mackenzie…

Aristotle posited that houses aren’t just material structures of stones, bricks, and timber. They are also “receptacles to shelter ... living beings.”

The Sept. 27, 2022 episode of “The Ezra Klein Show”

During my preschool years I spent most of the time with my maternal grandmother, Inez Darrell (née Outerbridge), in Flatts Village. It was my extended family’s influence that anchored in me an appreci...

If you ask me, Portal's signature moment involves putting a portal in the ceiling and another portal in the floor just …

Our books editor has got you covered, for beaches, barbecues or your own backyard.

The notion of indivisibles and atoms arose in ancient Greece. The continuum—that is, the collection of points in a straight line segment, appeared to have paradoxical properties, arising from the ‘indivisibles’ that remain after a process of division has been carried out throughout the continuum. In the seventeenth century, Italian mathematicians were using new methods involving the notion of indivisibles, and the paradoxes of the continuum appeared in a new context. This cast doubt on the...