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Nature’s Strangest Psychedelic is Everywhere: The Ever-Surprising History of DMT

Nature’s Strangest Psychedelic is Everywhere: The Ever-Surprising History of DMT

Andrew R. Gallimore on the Alien Power of a Revolutionary Drug

By Andrew R. Gallimore | July 16, 2025

Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui

Muscle Beach: Surfing with Bonnie Tsui

Mickie Meinhardt Profiles the Author of “On Muscle,” on a Surfboard

By Mickie Meinhardt | July 16, 2025

Here's what's making us happy <em> this </em> week.

Here's what's making us happy this week.

By Brittany Allen | July 11, 2025

On the Dehumanizing Impact of Deportation and Our Obligations to Each Other

On the Dehumanizing Impact of Deportation and Our Obligations to Each Other

Laurie Sheck Considers the Plight of Refugee Children

By Laurie Sheck | July 2, 2025

Inside Mexican Feminists’ Fight For Safe and Legal Abortion

Inside Mexican Feminists’ Fight For Safe and Legal Abortion

Rebecca Grant on the Battle for Reproductive Freedom in Latin America and Throughout the World

By Rebecca Grant | June 24, 2025

How Exactly <em>Did</em> Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era

How Exactly Did Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era

Dr. Merijn van de Laar Explores the Sleeping Patterns and Habits of Our Earliest Ancestors

By Merijn van de Laar | June 13, 2025

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How Big Pharma Intentionally Misleads Patients About the Efficacy of Their Products

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“Here is What I Know: A Baby is Born.” On the Wild West of Childbirth.

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Singing For Last Time: What It’s Like to Lose Your Voice—Forever

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Molly Jong-Fast on Human Frailty and Unlearning Erica Jong’s Lessons

Molly Jong-Fast on Human Frailty and Unlearning Erica Jong’s Lessons

The Author of “How to Lose Your Mother” Remembers a Week of Devastating Diagnoses

By Molly Jong-Fast | June 3, 2025

A Place of Healing: Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Medicinal Plants of the Adirondacks

A Place of Healing: Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Medicinal Plants of the Adirondacks

"If we value the medicine the land offers us so generously, we must become medicine for the land."

By Robin Wall Kimmerer | June 2, 2025

How Agricultural Runoff Contaminated One of Iowa's Main Water Sources

How Agricultural Runoff Contaminated One of Iowa's Main Water Sources

Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty on the Legal Battle to Hold Powerful Polluters Accountable

By Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty | May 27, 2025

Defeating Death: On the Motivations and Methods of People Who Want to Live Forever

Defeating Death: On the Motivations and Methods of People Who Want to Live Forever

Amy Larocca Explores Some of the Most Extreme Manifestations of Contemporary Wellness Culture

By Amy Larocca | May 14, 2025

Two Households, Both Alike in Indignity: An Interview with Anne Ursu

Two Households, Both Alike in Indignity: An Interview with Anne Ursu

Gavin J. Grant and Anne Ursu on Chronic Illness, Writing, and Family

By Gavin J. Grant | May 9, 2025

It’s the Most Important Muscle in Your Body and You Don’t Even Know What It’s Called

It’s the Most Important Muscle in Your Body and You Don’t Even Know What It’s Called

Henry Abbott on the Essential Anatomical Role Played By the Enigmatic Psoas

By Henry Abbott | May 7, 2025

How London’s Great Plague Planted the Seeds For Future Scientific Advancements

How London’s Great Plague Planted the Seeds For Future Scientific Advancements

Thomas Levenson on the Dubious Yet Important Science of 17th-Century Medicine

By Thomas Levenson | April 30, 2025

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