Understanding where you are in the world is a basic survival skill, which is why we, like most species come hard-wired with

BBC FUTURE

I used a smartphone GPS to find my way through the cobblestoned maze of Geneva’s Old Town,

NEW YORK TIMES 

Local jobs are a major casualty of what analysts are calling, with only a hint of hyperbole, the retail apocalypse

TIME

Scientists have long recognized the incredible diversity within a species.

AEON

Do sports mega events like the summer Olympic Games benefit the host city economically? It depends, but the prospects are less than rosy.

NEW YORK TIMES

Creativity is at once our most precious resource and our most inexhaustible one.

NYT

During the frigid season…it’s often necessary to nestle under a blanket to try to stay warm.

AEON

The end of the age of the internal combustion engine is in sight.

THE GUARDIAN

Typewriters are the epitome of a technology that has been comprehensively rendered obsolete by the digital age.

THE GUARDIAN

Despite their fierce reputation. Vikings may not have always been the plunderers and pillagers popular culture imagines them to be.

SMITH SONIA MAG

The only thing worse than being lied to is not knowing you’re being lied to. It’s true that plastic pollution is a huge problem, of planetary proportions.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

Indian government [has] announced an international competition to design a National War Memorial in New Delhi, to honour all of the Indian soldiers who served in the various wars and counter-insurgency campaigns from 1947 onwards.

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When researchers at Emory University in Atlanta trained mice to fear the smell of almonds (by pairing it with electric shocks),.

REALCLEARSCIENCE

Economists have spent most of the 20th century ignoring psychology, positive or otherwise. But today there is a great deal of emphasis on how happiness can shape global economies, or — on a smaller scale — successful business practice.

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