For much of early modern Europe, sleep didn’t seem to have followed the single, unbroken pattern we use today. A large body of historical evidence points to many people sleeping in two stretches, with ...

It is a universal human experience that transcends borders and centuries: the sudden, suffocating realization that you are awake, yet paralyzed, while a shadow looms at the edge of your vision. Long ...

This process is often referred to as denaturalization – showing how what we take to be natural is the result of a history of human action that has moved something from being understood as social to ...