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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you feel like your home is stuck in the past but just can’t put your finger on why, designers say that one of these things may be the offending item.

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 ...