Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

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Key factors in the collapse of the Mayan civilization may have been located deep within a Mexican cave, as University of Cambridge-led researchers analyzed the chemical makeup of stalagmites that help ...

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Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political decline which, according to the scientific literature, coincided with ...

The feeling will be familiar to many who have visited the great cities of history: I had come to Athens for the first time and made a pilgrimage to its democratic Assembly, Plato's Academy, and ...

What does it say about a society when its scholars turn increasingly to studies of the downfall of civilizations, the end of empires, the concept of human extinction, and even “existential risk”? That ...

Last night I saw The Decline of Western Civilization at Cornell Cinema (everybody, go support your campus movie theater). Decline is a documentary directed by Penelope Spheeris (weirdly also the ...

Sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your name. Let’s say, for example, you’re an East Coast society type fleeing the big city with your child in tow after murdering your abusive husband. Let’s ...

Public News founder Michael Shellenberger tells FOX News host Jesse Watters that Democrats are nowhere close to starting to "rethink any major part of their agenda." CBS NEWS: Now this is the most ...