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Can Digital Technology Really Deliver More Human Empathy?

Can Digital Technology Really Deliver More Human Empathy?

Dr. Natalie Petouhoff in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 23, 2022

How Myth and Poetry Helped Us Unlock the Mysteries of Photosynthesis

How Myth and Poetry Helped Us Unlock the Mysteries of Photosynthesis

Raffael Jovine on Plants and Scientific History

By Raffael Jovine | June 22, 2022

The Oddest of Organs: A Brief History of the Tongue

The Oddest of Organs: A Brief History of the Tongue

Kate Crowcroft: “The tongue is employed as a metaphor for the extension and consumption of aeons.”

By Kate Crowcroft | June 22, 2022

Why the Crisis of Teenage Anxiety Might Begin and End With Sleep Deprivation

Why the Crisis of Teenage Anxiety Might Begin and End With Sleep Deprivation

Lisa Lewis in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 21, 2022

What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Fat

What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Fat

David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé on the Evolving Science Around What We Eat

By David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé | June 21, 2022

Why Is It I Keep Seeing the Same Painting Everywhere I Look?

Why Is It I Keep Seeing the Same Painting Everywhere I Look?

A Tale of Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon (in English and Italian)

By Gianluca Didino | June 17, 2022

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29 Works of Nonfiction You Need to Read This Summer

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Imagine America as a “Parent Nation”: Utopian Nonsense or Realizable Possibility?

Imagine America as a “Parent Nation”: Utopian Nonsense or Realizable Possibility?

Dana Suskind in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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What the Ancient Greeks <em>Thought</em> They Understood About Blood

What the Ancient Greeks Thought They Understood About Blood

Dr. Dhun Sethna on Homer, Hippocrates, and the Vascular System

By Dr. Dhun Sethna | June 7, 2022

A 17th-century book about the existence of aliens has been found in England.

A 17th-century book about the existence of aliens has been found in England.

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How Growing Up In the Digital Age Impacts Young Minds

How Growing Up In the Digital Age Impacts Young Minds

Carl D. Marci on the Pitfalls of Plugged-In Children

By Carl D. Marci | May 19, 2022

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

“To many in the Western world, the fact that the mind was free but separate from the heavenly soul was unbearable.”

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary | May 18, 2022

Finally Some Good News: Why We Might All Be Altruistic Creatures

Finally Some Good News: Why We Might All Be Altruistic Creatures

Stephanie D. Preston in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 12, 2022

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