Grocery stores are like the theaters of everyday life, where the mundane meets the bizarre. From aisle to aisle, you're likely to witness an array of peculiar behaviors unique to this setting. While ...

When it comes to human behavior, it’s rarely the grand gestures that tell the truth—it’s the micro-moments. The unguarded reactions, the slips between words, the ways people hold themselves when they ...

Late last night, hundreds of warm bodies piled together in the 20° weather outside of the undergraduate library at UNC Chapel Hill. For ten minutes at midnight, Carolina students shed the weight of ...

CU Boulder researcher Antje Richter studies early medieval Chinese records of the strange to understand how literature explores what it means to be human It may seem like a wholly modern affliction, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) When we first got together, we wondered whether our unconventional project, linking ...

To paraphrase another famous comic strip, we have met the strangers of “Strange Planet,” and they are us. That, as becomes abundantly clear, is the Jupiter-size joke in Nathan W. Pyle’s ...

Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between ...