In the winter of 2010, residents of a small Arkansas town awoke to find thousands of dead birds littering their lawns. Just days earlier, tens of thousands of dead fish had surfaced in the same state. It was the kind of coincidence that fuels conspiracy theories, yet investigators ultimately traced the two disasters to entirely […]

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Humanity has a long, curious history of assigning sacred meaning to the most unexpected things. While some cultures found divine power in the sun or wind, others encountered it in stones, tools, weapons, bodily relics, and objects that would appear entirely ordinary outside their religious setting. By imbuing a physical item with sacred power, followers […]

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