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Built to last: 30 years on, the legacy of Catan

India, Oct. 19 -- There wasn't a lot going on in the world of tabletop gaming in the early 1990s. Most games seemed to fall into familiar patterns. Classics such as Scrabble thrived in social gatherin... Read More


Built to last: 30 years on, the legacy of Catan

India, Oct. 18 -- There wasn't a lot going on in the world of tabletop gaming in the early 1990s. Most games seemed to fall into familiar patterns. Classics such as Scrabble thrived in social gatheri... Read More


Mirror worlds: Planets we've uncovered that are sci-fi come to life

India, Oct. 10 -- Astrophysicists are uncovering planets that echo worlds from the works of James Cameron, Andy Weir and George Lucas. Take a look. THE MULTI-STAR SYSTEM: Alpha Centauri James Camero... Read More


Talking about a revolution: Planets we've uncovered that are sci-fi come to life

India, Oct. 10 -- Astrophysicists are uncovering planets that echo worlds from the works of James Cameron, Andy Weir and George Lucas. Take a look. THE MULTI-STAR SYSTEM: Alpha Centauri James Camero... Read More


Where is everyone?: The latest from our search for alien life, an Earth-like planet

India, Oct. 10 -- There's a space-age joke about a man who has lost the keys to his car. He keeps looking beneath the nearest lamppost. Asked why, he replies: "It's where the light is." For millenni... Read More


Where is everyone?: The latest from our search for life beyond our planet

India, Oct. 10 -- There's a space-age joke about a man who has lost the keys to his car. He keeps looking beneath the nearest lamppost. Asked why, he replies: "It's where the light is." For millenni... Read More


Class, gender, race: The politics of self-care

India, Oct. 5 -- It was Socrates who essentially said: Put your own mask on first. A 4th-century-BCE book by his pupil, Plato, describes how two Athenian fathers sought Socrates out, looking for advic... Read More


Dark wellness: Fiction traces grim extremes

India, Oct. 5 -- First there was #ThatGirl, with her eucalyptus-scented mists, Stanley cup full of green juice and massages that doubled as workouts. The aesthetic went viral on social media in 2021 a... Read More


Dark wellness: A new genre of fiction traces grim extremes of self-care

India, Oct. 3 -- First there was #ThatGirl, with her eucalyptus-scented mists, Stanley cup full of green juice and massages that doubled as workouts. The aesthetic went viral on social media in 2021 a... Read More


Class, gender, race: The politics of self-care

India, Oct. 3 -- It was Socrates who essentially said: Put your own mask on first. "Epimeleia heautou" or "care of the self" was central to his discourses on ways to tackle life's challenges, includi... Read More