Today's teenagers know little about the Bible, and have a correspondingly diminished understanding of American history.
It's impossible to understand America's founding without John Locke's philosophy of individual natural rights.
It's no mystery why hitting major league pitching is so difficult; science reveals that the spin of the ball determines its trajectory.
The insect world has its own police; the "criminals" are rogue females introducing their own eggs into the population.
Many therapists now regard their profession as more of a philosophy than a science--and that is having a positive effect on their patients.
Frustrated by their failure to match genes to specific purposes, many scientists are beginning to look to a new field: systems biology.
Considering the legacy of the late American novelist, Saul Bellow.
Trying to find the real Walt Whitman in the varied anthologies of his work.
Classical art, so prevalent in early American motifs, did not point to revolutionary ideology, but, says a Stanford historian, "was reinvented to suit the ends of a new political program."
Appreciating the poet E. E. Cummings, whose typographically experimental work exists almost entirely on the printed page and is rarely recited.