From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, ...

Even after 2,000 years of exposure to the intense heat and humidity of the Yucatán jungles, the temples, statues, and murals ...

In a world rebuilding itself from the ground up, few visions feel as elemental — and as elegant — as TerraLux. At the ...

Reiko Ohnuma, a scholar of South Asian Buddhism, argues that Maya is remembered in Buddhist tradition as an idealized, if passive, maternal figure. Her death shortly after the future Buddha’s birth ...

This data is now part of the Open Tree of Life (OpenTree) project—a collaboration between evolutionary biologists and taxonomists which aims to construct the evolutionary history of all known ...

Located on the blustery Pacific coastline of Washington state, the Tree of Life earned its name from how it has survived in a seemingly unsurvivable environment – and does so with an ...

FORKS, Wash. – The "Tree of Life" in Olympic National Park has become a symbol of resilience over the years, but recent photos show that this bastion of beating the odds may be coming to its end.

In such events of late, financial institutions have been pushing an alternative to FIRE, implying that people in the FIRE movement experience a life with little meaning and that somehow paying ...

World Earth Day 2025: From Gin & Tree to zero-waste cocktails, here’s how Indian restaurants are celebrating the day (Image Source: Unsplash) On Earth Day this year, as the world reflects on the ...

We were on campus, working until usually about 1 a.m. During one of our events, on an exceptionally long day, my friend asked me about the meaning of life and why I thought we, as humans, were here.

“Christ is risen! These words capture the entire meaning of our existence, for we were not made for death but for life,” reads a post Sunday from his official account on X, formerly Twitter. The words ...