Dean Simonton, a researcher from the University of California at Davis, created a system to estimate presidential IQs. He based each score off of the leader’s intellectual brilliance and openness. On average, most of the presidential IQs fall somewhere around 130. However, some IQ scores fall below that average. And some are higher than the […]
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These days, when cameras are everywhere, from our phones to security cams in public spaces, it’s easy to forget that the major part of history has passed without them. Only in 1888, when Kodak released the first commercial camera, did they slowly begin permeating our lives. But long before thousands of snaps on our camera […]
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Same-sex couples seem controversial in parts of the world even nowadays—imagine what it was like to live half a century earlier when such thoughts were viewed with disdain. Of course, it’s not an issue of the past, either, as there are plenty of people who’d even now like to pretend there’s no such thing as […]
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Early Romantic writers assumed writer’s block was due to a power that prevented them from writingPhoto by Min An from Pexels. The first known victim of writer’s block is the English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote his most famous lines in his twenties. At the age of 32, he made the […]
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There are so many things in history that simply make sense. Someone marching into battle in the cold Russian winter in hopes of a victory only to meet a crushing loss? Someone coming into power on hate-filled rhetoric against a minority only to eventually commit unimaginable atrocities against the said minority? While some historical events […]
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“Emily Hale” began trending on the Internet this week – when Princeton University Library released the 1,131 letters that the poet T. S. Eliot had written her before her death 50 years ago last fall. But what made the episode even more newsworthy was the unexpected release by Harvard University’s Houghton Library of a letter […]
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