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The Great Fear was based on an unfounded rumor. That didn't matter when it came to real world consequences. Credit: Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily ...

Over the weekend, singer Solange Knowles was honored with the first-ever Lena Horne Prize for Artists Creating Social Impact at the Town Hall in New York City. A number of stars were in attendance to ...

Researchers have examined the Great Fear of 1789, a period when unfounded rumors about an alleged famine orchestrated by the aristocracy spread across France in just a few weeks. This episode ...

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Researchers have used epidemiological models to determine whether the wave of riots in 1789 known as the Great Fear spread through irrational panic or rational protest. Read the paper: Epidemiology ...