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Anthropological, historical and medical literature shows that beliefs about semen as a vital substance, life‑force or carrier of masculine power have shaped practices and preferences about ingesting i...
Early Christian writings generally present in the sources examined, with foundational texts like the Didache and authors such as Tertullian, Athenagoras, and Clement of Alexandria framing abortion as ...
Men and women can and do form , but the prevalence, stability, and perceived depth of those friendships vary by gender, socialization, evolutionary pressures, and cultural context; empirical studies a...
Scientists and centuries of observations show Earth is not a perfect sphere but an oblate spheroid — slightly flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator — with additional irregularities from mo...
The phrase “Ethics of meta” can mean two things at once: the academic field of metaethics, which asks what morality itself is, and the ethics of Meta Platforms, the company whose decisions about polic...
Love is a cluster concept—an array of related but distinct phenomena that philosophers divide into types such as eros (passionate desire), philia (friendship), and agape (unconditional or altruistic l...
Science, not parable, settles the old paradox: eggs in general predate chickens by hundreds of millions of years, and even under the narrow biological definition of a “chicken egg” the egg still comes...
Yes: both history and popular culture offer clear examples of long-running, nonsexual friendships between men and women, though scholars caution they are less visible and sometimes contested; classica...
Paracelsus is repeatedly identified in available sources as the alchemist who formulated the “Tria Prima” (the three primes—sulfur, mercury, salt) and linked that doctrine to a geometric or conceptual...
Ancient Greek historians learned about Palestine from a mix of direct observation, earlier Greek writings, Mediterranean trade contacts and a small number of surviving geographic and ethnographic acco...
Across centuries intellectual defenses of slavery invoked religion, classical authority, economics, law, and pseudo‑science—claims that slavery was sanctioned by the Bible, endorsed by Aristotle and R...