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What is the biggest nightmare of an Asian parent? A common answer may be parenting a child who is modern, individualistic, self-centered, outspoken, and rebellious. Contradictorily, a western parent ...

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Four reports by the International Co-Sponsored Meeting on Culture, Heritage and Climate Change highlight that human cultural heritage has a wealth of knowledge to contribute to grapple with climate ...

One reason for our relentless “culture wars” and anxieties about “cancel culture” might be our misguided sense of what culture is — and how easily we can change it. We used to frame everything in ...

Andrea Boggio does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

When Chandrayaan-3 landed on the south pole of the moon this year, there were many exciting pictures on the news. Among them, the ones that particularly tugged at my heart were those of the women ...

Science is under fire as never before in the United States. Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump and his Republican allies dismiss the findings of health experts as casually as those of ...

Tour world-class museums, read historic cookbooks, browse interactive maps and more Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History A stained glass window designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany is ...