When will I find true love? Will I get the job? Will things get better in the new year? From the I Ching and palm reading to tarot and astrology, humans have long used all kinds of tools to predict ...

HONG KONG — Every day during his lunch break, Sean Cheng, a fortuneteller, pulls out his phone, logs onto Instagram and checks his messages for new client appointments. He replies to comments from ...

It’s easy for us to look around our world populated by iPhones, AI-driven data analysis, self-driving cars, and self-flying planes, and think that we, and our contemporary technology-rich culture, are ...

Source: Heinrich Stürzl / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons We can define divination as using a systematic approach in order to try to gain insight into a situation or problem (Peek, 1991). In the ...

It’s not a party until someone brings out the animal matter. Israeli archaeologists have discovered the unusual purpose behind 600 Hellenistic-era dice fashioned from the talus bones of ancient ...

Whether or not human cultures can persist without divination is debatable, since it seems no culture on record has gone without some form of it (Curry, 2010: 1). Yet divination’s role is highly ...

Climate science is the exploration of uncertainty. It starts with a question—a portal into a broader investigation, a way to make sense of disquieting realities and incomprehensible futures—that ...

The Harry Potter series has woven an overt web across the world, creating a new generation of readers who have soaked up each successive tome with a surprising enthusiasm never before seen in the ...