Why Films Around the World Are Turning to Time Travel to Explore Mothers and Daughters

Why Films Around the World Are Turning to Time Travel to Explore Mothers and Daughters

Meg Walters on Petite Maman, Russian Doll, and Hi, Mom

By Meg Walters | June 22, 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

Of Wazhazhe Land and Language: The Ongoing Project of Ancestral Work

Of Wazhazhe Land and Language: The Ongoing Project of Ancestral Work

Chelsea T. Hicks on the Land Back Movement and Working Toward Rematriation

By Chelsea T. Hicks | 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

The Pervasive Problem—and Far-Reaching Impact—of Tree Poaching

The Pervasive Problem—and Far-Reaching Impact—of Tree Poaching

Lyndsie Bourgon on the Theft of Our Deepest Connection to History

By Lyndsie Bourgon | June 22, 2022

What It Was Like on a Cruise Ship the Night Before COVID Shut the World Down

What It Was Like on a Cruise Ship the Night Before COVID Shut the World Down

On the Zaandam, Where the Band Continued to Play

By Michael Smith and Jonathan Franklin | June 22, 2022

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Manhattan Phoenix by Daniel S. Levy, Read by Mike Lenz

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Why the World Owes America a Great Debt For Its Participation in the Second World War

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How to Fix the Environment? A Four-Thousand-Year-Old Reading List for Confronting Our Climate Emergency

How to Fix the Environment? A Four-Thousand-Year-Old Reading List for Confronting Our Climate Emergency

Martin Puchner in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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How to Spot a Fraud: Never Trust Anything That Sounds Too Good to Be True

How to Spot a Fraud: Never Trust Anything That Sounds Too Good to Be True

Dan McCrum in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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How Jean-Paul Sartre's relentless pranking forced his teacher to resign.

How Jean-Paul Sartre's relentless pranking forced his teacher to resign.

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Russian journalist sells Nobel medal in heroic f*ck you to the Putin Regime.

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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

On the Etymologies and Linguistic Evolutions of “Family”

On the Etymologies and Linguistic Evolutions of “Family”

Marina Manoukian Explores the Communication of a Ubiquitous Idea Across Disparate Cultures

By Marina Manoukian | June 21, 2022

To the Stranger Who Returned My Lost Notebook

To the Stranger Who Returned My Lost Notebook

Leigh N. Gallagher on Losing—and Recovering—an Archive of Feelings

By Leigh N. Gallagher | June 21, 2022

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