Zero is one of a number of concepts that have shaped the course of the world so fundamentally that we would not recognize modern life without ... are still used for things like making heating ...

Just suppose a Medieval was to arrive in the modern world today. Coming from a time of knights and castles, monks, and abbeys they would see our 21st century world as completely alien to the one they ...

When boomers say things like “I don’t get why you can’t just call”, it may make them seem resistant to change and out of touch with the modern world. But it’s not just about convenience.

invent more things. Modern inventions tend more toward improving than transforming: an app that connects the world in a better way, planes that fly farther, faster. But there’s still room ...

And yet we barely give these things a second thought ... and luck and happenstance that have built our modern world. Okay – buckle up – time for six extraordinary stories I learnt while ...

Darwin and Lincoln did not make the modern world. But, by becoming "icons" of ... death point to other patterns of coincidence in bigger things. Lincoln and Darwin can be seen as symbols of ...