During the past 10,000 years—the Holocene—human societies became larger and ever more complex. An international team of scientists led by Peter Turchin from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna (CSH) set ...

[Vienna, July 21, 2025] –The book Seshat History of Moralizing Religion explores how societies across the world have answered some of the oldest human questions: What do the gods want from us? Will we ...

When you think of religion, you probably think of a god who rewards the good and punishes the wicked. But the idea of morally concerned gods is by no means universal. Social scientists have long known ...

‘Benat Seshat’ is a computer learning initiative that is passionate about empowering women through providing digital literacy. Initiative founder Nancy Awad strongly believes that digital learning ...

In the second segment of last week’s essay in this column, I joined my voice to the voices of thousands of those greatly excited by the declaration by UNESCO of Port Harcourt as the Book Week Capital ...