Lynda Claassen, director of Special Collections & Archives, has known a new Dr. Seuss book was in the works since the spring. That’s when longtime Seuss editors asked library staff to pull the ...

A childhood memory is illustrated in a heartfelt timelapse. These are the U.S. ships and aircraft massing off Venezuela ...

With their posters for the Indiana Jones films, Rambo and more, Renato Casaro and Drew Struzan made work that embedded itself in our pop culture memories.

Young chimpanzees are remarkably innovative, inventing tools and improving on ones that adults use—and this technical ...

Josie Moore, a student at the University of Massachusets Dartmouth, will be flown out to Hollywood to take masterclasses from ...

There is no one person responsible for the birth of surfing, but there is lots of historical evidence about the origin point.

There is the date of First Confusion: What is this grain of sand in my left breast? Date of Biopsy, where I shivered on a ...

What labor-saving device is most important in today’s society? Got any guesses? I haven’t taken a poll nor done extensive research — elderly writers don’t like extensive work. My estimation is just ...

Johannes Gutenberg portrait illustration 1899 Original edition from my own archives Source : Dictionnaire Larousse 1899 Young James Watt watching a steaming kettle The youthful James Watt watching a ...

From weird gadgets to totally pointless ideas, these kid inventions are hilariously bad. Trump’s Behavior Has ‘Awakened’ Americans: Reich Robbie Williams leaves Julia Roberts lost for words with ...

How the languages of the world emerged is largely a mystery. Considering that it might have taken millennia, it is intriguing to see how deaf people can create novel sign languages spontaneously.

With books like “Woman and Nature,” she pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, linking violence against women to the ravaging of the environment. By Penelope Green Susan Griffin, an ...