Eager to demonstrate the value of an historical perspective as to why, in a functioning market economy, people are unlikely to ever run out...
81 months ago

Some of the following predictions people have made about technology and culture are so hilariously off-base that you can't help but point and laugh.
16 months ago

Today in women's history in 1818, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published. The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley...
142 months ago

The story was a hoax, written by Poe, who had arrived in the city a week earlier. But, he later said, there was “nothing put forth in the Balloon-Story.
42 months ago

Kathryn Hughes enjoys an absorbing history of life in 19th-century London.
145 months ago

Many future predictions have been made throughout history by many people, some of which have proven to be eerily accurate.
48 months ago

Poe understood that scientism, the belief that science was the only true guide in life, would have an enormous influence on American public life.
39 months ago

The Confession Box pub resides snuggly at 88 Marlborough Street on the ground floor of a fine old Georgian building at the side of the old...
79 months ago

Many Romans have fled their city after a prediction it would be hit by an earthquake. But forecasters usually get the future spectacularly...
164 months ago

The newly invented steam train, traveling so fast and far were blamed for triggering dark desires in men, driving them to insane acts of violence.
83 months ago