Ancient beliefs, based on what is now often referred to as ‘intuitive science’, are making an unprecedented comeback and believers in the philosophy of ‘The Doctrine of Signatures’ are being taken ...

[BALEARIC BEAUTY] Natural Magic, the duo of Mike McKinnon and Matthew Quiet, puts on the Limited Edition parties in Portland that are as exclusive as the name suggests. I've never been to one, but ...

Natural Magic, by Renée Bergland (Princeton). Although Charles Darwin and Emily Dickinson are not known to have ever crossed paths, this study finds meaning in their shared enchantment with the ...

The naturalist Charles Darwin and the poet Emily Dickinson would seem to be unlikely bedfellows – imagine the fascinating product that might have resulted from that concumbence – but in her ...

Charles Darwin couldn’t wait to get his mail. In “Natural Magic,” Renée Bergland reports that he installed an angled mirror outside his window so that he would see right away when it came in, often ...

Doctor Faustus was a real person—a conduit, said some (including Martin Luther) for diabolic magic. Others in early 16th-century Germany dismissed him as a “vagabond,” a man who played “jugglers’ ...