The Washington Post took down an editorial cartoon Wednesday that depicted a Hamas leader using civilians as human shields, after the drawing was criticized as racist and dehumanizing toward ...

That interview was the inspiration for a recent cartoon I drew for the Washington Post depicting Gazi Hamad and his human shields. A cartoon by the author that was pulled from the Washington Post ...

Let’s talk space rocks, folks. The placement and movement of planets and constellations in the birth chart offer insights into the blessings and banes that befall us on our flaming motorcycle ...

The first 20 seconds of the play “Constellations” is marked by a long silence, followed by the female lead’s opening line: “Do you know why it’s impossible to lick the tips of your elbows?” ...

And it turns out our view of those constellations has changed since they were first mapped thousands of years ago. OK. We are not about to start forecasting your love life or your future ...

Around the second century C.E., the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy listed 48 “official” constellations in his book Almagest. No original copy of Almagest has survived, so we don’t know ...

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Here’s when you’ll see the next full moon, comets constellations and more. Venus will shine its brightest in February Stars get a lot of attention for shining bright, but planets shine ...

Our meaning-seeking brain naturally interprets patterns in these “fixed” stars as recognizable figures that we call constellations (literally, “collections of stars”). Well, they’re ...