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James "The Amazing" Randi is a renowned magician and escape artist, but he can't abide charlatans. So he turned his energy to exposing psychics and…

Religion scholar Candida Moss began thinking about Christian martyrs when she heard a sermon comparing the plight of today's believers to that of the…

The Rocky Mountains have always posed a forbidding obstacle for travelers, but there’s one place where "God ran out of mountains," and passage is…

Monday, we're talking about the life and career of one of Hollywood's biggest legends, John Wayne. Of course, any time you're talking Westerns, the…

In 1942 the Japanese army forced about 70,000 US and Philippino prisoners of war to march some 80 miles across the Bataan Peninsula on the way to a prison…

Thursday, we’re talking about the monsters of the silver screen. They’ve been an integral part of films since their earliest days, but as our anxieties…

Like every other organism on the planet, humans evolved over thousands of years to survive and thrive under rather specific circumstances. But what…

Thursday, we continue our Through the Lens series with The Case Against 8. In 2008, thousands of same-sex couples married in California, and the backlash…

Like most middle-class American parents, Hanna Rosin pays a lot of attention to her children. But it hasn’t always been that way. Just a generation ago,…

What would you give to see a breathing woolly mammoth? Or a flight of passenger pigeons? For all the damage humans have done to the planet, science may be…