A long-standing myth about medieval history is that the Middle Ages were intellectually dark. Science supposedly took a hiatus between the demise of Rome and the rise of Copernican astronomy and ...
Rachel Feltman: These days, science and magic are generally thought of as being diametrically opposed: fact versus fiction, reason versus fantasy, modern sensibilities versus archaic misconceptions.
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“Shake off the fear, and be the Phoenix,” Medieval studies professor Rachel Fulton Brown tweeted on January 13, sharing a letter calling for a change in UChicago’s current COVID-19 policies and ...
We’re going to stick to science. And we may even find—our scientists may, in response to a certain question, may say that’s not their expertise, which is fair enough, ’cause this is about science, ...
In 1395, the Hôpital Civil de Strasbourg, at the time an almost-300-year-old hospital, dug a wine cellar specifically to serve its patients—and not just with meals. From high cholesterol to herpes, ...