I defined this image as " The most amazing graph of the 21st century ," and I argued that the rapid inversion of the declining tre...

It is said that the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa wrote this haiku upon the death of his daughter: "The dewdrop world is a dewdrop world...

  The "Commedia dell'Arte" was a form of popular theatre, often played without a script. The masked actors would improvise acc...

  Afghanistan: a ragged blot of land more or less at the center of the mass of Eurasia and Africa. Over a couple of centuries, it repelled i...