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Among the missing blue plaques are ones commemorating William Hogarth, John Milton and Joseph Lister

Thorny devils have a plethora of defenses against predators, including a fake head and a weird jerky walk.

Our picks for the best Keanu Reeves movies streaming online, including The Matrix and John Wick

The long-awaited government guidance on the official “retain and explain” policy suggests the UK’s contested statues and monuments be retained as long as additional context is provided. But given their controversial past, how do we go about that?

The Andreessen Horowitz founder’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” is notable for several things—and the absence of one.

The term “liberal arts” is one of the most misunderstood terms in the public discourse on higher education today. A higher education expert once said that putting the words “liberal” and “arts” together was a “branding disaster” – one so toxic that it was undermining public support for higher education.…

ORLANDO, Fla. — The classic novels “A Room With a View” and “Madame Bovary” and the epic poem “Paradise Lost” — published in England more than 350 years ago — have been at least temporarily rejected by Orange County Public Schools for sexual content that educators fear runs afoul of…

Endings, extinctions, last things preoccupied Cormac McCarthy from the start to the recent close of his 60-year career as a writer of fiction and, occasionally, drama for stage or screen. His first novel, The Orchard Keeper (1965), ends with the word “dust”. His final novel, Stella Maris (2022), allows only…

Why use the Nick Cave song? It’s funny but it also sets up Roy as the "Peaky Blinders" crime boss of soccer