Whereas animal cultures affect just a few crucial behaviors, such as courtship and feeding, human cultures cover a massive and constantly expanding set of activities, from clothing to table ...

As it unfurls, the saga of Mahmoud Khalil—the Columbia agitator picked up by immigration enforcement last week—looks less like a complicated immigration-law dispute and more like something out of a ...

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While wombats may appear cute and cuddly, they are wild animals that, over time, have developed ways to defend themselves against predators. (Wombats have buns of steel—and they poop in cubes.