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Whether through agricultural practices, deforestation, or urbanization, how modern humans use land has had an unprecedented ...

Director of the Center for South Asian Studies Lalita du Perron interviews students, faculty and alumni for her podcast, offering an inside look at South Asian Studies at Stanford and beyond.

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A Journey Through Ancient History Sailing the Nile is like taking a step back in time. This legendary river, the lifeline of ...

In honor of the tradition of lovers exchanging candy on Valentine’s Day, we examine the origins of chocolate and how it has ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

Another Jewish community was established in the port of Nagasaki. In fairly short order, the Russo-Japanese War and the Great ...

Two research papers published in Nature by scientists from Russia and Ukraine provide new evidence supporting the theory that ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...