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The Mysterious Man Who Discovered Neurons and Changed Science Forever

The Mysterious Man Who Discovered Neurons and Changed Science Forever

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By Benjamin Ehrlich | March 15, 2022

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Put Down That Flyswatter: Why We Need Flies to Exist

Oliver Milman on Our Great Debt to Insects

By Oliver Milman | March 14, 2022

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Why Do Some People Believe the Earth is Flat?

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How David George Haskell Decodes the Sounds of Our Natural World

How David George Haskell Decodes the Sounds of Our Natural World

The Author of Sounds Wild and Broken Goes in Search of Birdsong, Elk Calls and More

By David George Haskell | March 10, 2022

What a Scan of Vladimir Putin’s Power-Addled Brain Might Tell Us

What a Scan of Vladimir Putin’s Power-Addled Brain Might Tell Us

Brian Klaas in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Can ecological extinction models help us understand the literature we’ve lost?

Can ecological extinction models help us understand the literature we’ve lost?

By Jonny Diamond | March 8, 2022

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Carl Erik Fisher on Undoing the Notion of Addiction as an Irredeemable State

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The Real Life and Times of the Scientist Who Inspired Dr. Strangelove

Ananyo Bhattacharya on the Brilliance of John von Neumann

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Soon there might be a new global library—of the sounds fish make.

Soon there might be a new global library—of the sounds fish make.

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Observing the Beautiful, Secret Lives of Sandhoppers

Observing the Beautiful, Secret Lives of Sandhoppers

Adam Nicolson on an Overlooked Beach-Dweller

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How much lost medieval literature is there? A wildlife-tracking method may have the answer.

How much lost medieval literature is there? A wildlife-tracking method may have the answer.

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