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Sarah Bakewell on Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and What it Actually Means to Be “Human”

Sarah Bakewell on Posthumanism, Transhumanism, and What it Actually Means to Be “Human”

“Will machine minds ever acquire anything like our ability to have thoughts of seriousness and depth?”

By Sarah Bakewell | April 5, 2023

How Stress Creeps Through Social Inequity to Shorten Lives

How Stress Creeps Through Social Inequity to Shorten Lives

Dr. Arline T. Geronimus on Stress and the Human Biological Canvas

By Arline T. Geronimus | March 31, 2023

How Smell—the Most Underrated Sense—Was Overpowered By Our Other Senses

How Smell—the Most Underrated Sense—Was Overpowered By Our Other Senses

Ashley Ward on the Oft-Ignored and Much-Maligned Olfactory Sense

By Ashley Ward | March 29, 2023

Hitting the Aesthetic Triad While Gazing at Art

Hitting the Aesthetic Triad While Gazing at Art

Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross on the Workings of Neuroaesthetics

By Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross | March 22, 2023

Dr Ben Alderson-Day on the Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other

Dr Ben Alderson-Day on the Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 21, 2023

Monica C. Parker on the Extraordinary Emotion That can Change the Way We Live: Wonder

Monica C. Parker on the Extraordinary Emotion That can Change the Way We Live: Wonder

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 20, 2023

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On the Ethics of Preserving—and Cutting Short—the Life of a Pet

By Karen Fine | March 17, 2023

Is Gillian Anderson’s New Anthology of Women’s Sexual Fantasies Too Restrictive?

By Ellie Broughton | March 16, 2023

In Argentina, How the Bones of the Dead Communicate With the Living

By Alexa Hagerty | March 16, 2023

Daisy Hildyard on the Ancient Origins of James Lovelock, Progenitor of Gaia Theory

Daisy Hildyard on the Ancient Origins of James Lovelock, Progenitor of Gaia Theory

“Lovelock’s origin can be traced back thirteen billion years, and more, to an event that lasted for a fraction of a moment.”

By Daisy Hildyard | March 16, 2023

Fabulous Fungi: On the Endless Possibilities of the Mushroom

Fabulous Fungi: On the Endless Possibilities of the Mushroom

Meg Madden Explores the Many Ways to Use Mushrooms

By Meg Madden | March 9, 2023

Steven Kotler on How to Stay “Rad” While Growing Old

Steven Kotler on How to Stay “Rad” While Growing Old

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 1, 2023

When Rebellion Becomes Virtue: How the Scientific Method Came to Be

When Rebellion Becomes Virtue: How the Scientific Method Came to Be

Carlo Rovelli on the Ancient Origins of Modern Inquiry

By Carlo Rovelli | February 28, 2023

Spectacular Pseudoscience: The Fall and Rise of Bioelectricity

Spectacular Pseudoscience: The Fall and Rise of Bioelectricity

Sally Adee on the Origins of Frankenstein and the Dark Ethics of Electroshock Technology

By Sally Adee | February 28, 2023

Lucy Jones on the Fascinatingly Weird Lifeforms of the Forest Floor

Lucy Jones on the Fascinatingly Weird Lifeforms of the Forest Floor

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | February 27, 2023

How the Resurgence of Whale Populations Impacts Our Ecosystem

How the Resurgence of Whale Populations Impacts Our Ecosystem

Christopher J. Preston on the History and Future of Whale Conservation

By Christopher J. Preston | February 22, 2023

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