According to archaeologists, the world’s first zoological park was established 5,000 years ago in Predynastic Egypt. A political and economic capital even long before the unified rule of pharaohs, it ...

One of the enduring tensions in the discussions of single life (and not just on this blog) is the belief on one side that single people could not possibly be happy (and if they say they are, they are ...

When we deeply desire someone or something, we often say we’re “pining for” them. But why do we use the word “pining” in this context? “Does it have anything to do with pine trees?” a colleague ...

Indians are big on pining. We are a nation of migrants, and Indians somehow make a virtue, even a fetish, of this feeling of missing the beloved. It can be yearning for a lover, a husband, a son—or ...