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The Eureka Moment: How Calculated Risk-Taking Can Lead to Scientific Innovation
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By Alex Hutchinson
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The Beast Inside: What the Myth of the Minotaur Reveals About Human Nature
Natalie Lawrence Explores Our Enduring Obsession With Monsters, Internal and External
By Natalie Lawrence
April 2, 2025
Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots
Anthony Giardina Explores “Advertisements for Myself” and a Controversial Author’s Legacy
By Anthony Giardina
April 2, 2025
What the Science of Gene Inheritance Reveals About the Humans Behind It
Dalton Conley Explores the Infinite Possibilities and Gross Misuses of Advances in Genetic Research
By Dalton Conley
April 2, 2025
By Arthur Sze
April 2, 2025
Rachel Kushner on How Clarice Lispector Disrupts Our Notions of Good and Bad
“Even as she does not mean to comfort, I feel her — here, still right here, to tell us how it really is.”
By Rachel Kushner
April 1, 2025
