When ancient humans cried out for answers in a chaotic world filled with volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, meteor strikes and other calamitous events, they often looked for supernatural explanations.

When you think of religion, you probably think of a god who rewards the good and punishes the wicked. But the idea of morally concerned gods is by no means universal. Social scientists have long known ...

For the past decade, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been working with collaborators to bring together the most current and structured body of knowledge about human history in one place: the ...

‘Benat Seshat’ is a computer learning initiative that is passionate about empowering women through providing digital literacy. Initiative founder Nancy Awad strongly believes that digital learning ...

In the second segment of last week’s essay in this column, I joined my voice to the voices of thousands of those greatly excited by the declaration by UNESCO of Port Harcourt as the Book Week Capital ...