There is life in Rome outside the tourist destinations. With this guide, you can eat the best dried pasta in the city and ...

The protagonist for Irish writer James Joyce’s modernist novel ‘Ulysses’ (1922), was allegedly inspired by a Jewish painter ...

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Ray Kurzweil has been talking about tech-enabled immortality for decades, including in his 2005 book The Singularity Is Near ...

“Parthenope” is a brilliant screenplay by Academy Award-winning moviemaker Paolo Sorrentino. He wants one to experience the ...

Another new discovery in the ruins of Pompeii has shed light on the wilder side of the ancient Romans. An extremely rare frieze known as a “megalography,” or painting with life-sized figures, has been ...

Candace Silvers, an international energy healer with a surprising past, made a stop in Santa Barbara. The Independent’s ...

Nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, just minutes from the entrance to Sequoia National Park, sits the ...

From time to time, I refer to leaders who lack the courage to speak up against blatant evil or wrongful policy conduct as ...

Quite a few people – so much so that life extension has long been a cottage industry. As a physician and scholar in the medical humanities, I’ve found the quest to expand the human lifespan. During ...