Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

Sam Leith Has Some Serious Ideas

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This Eagle Would Eat Your Toddler If It Had The Chance

This Eagle Would Eat Your Toddler If It Had The Chance

Adam Hart on Our Shared History With Predators

By Adam Hart | May 11, 2023

Neil Theise on Connection, Consciousness and Being

Neil Theise on Connection, Consciousness and Being

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 9, 2023

Being on the Reader’s Side: Jaime Green on Writing a Book About Science (with an MFA)

Being on the Reader’s Side: Jaime Green on Writing a Book About Science (with an MFA)

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | May 4, 2023

How Our Well-Being Is Inextricably Linked to That of Those Around Us

How Our Well-Being Is Inextricably Linked to That of Those Around Us

Sarah Rose Cavanagh on the Invisible Leashes that Connect Us All

By Sarah Rose Cavanagh | May 2, 2023

Daniel Siegel on Expanding Our Idea of the “Self” to Include Other People, Other Species and the Earth Itself

Daniel Siegel on Expanding Our Idea of the “Self” to Include Other People, Other Species and the Earth Itself

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 25, 2023

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Peter Grinspoon, MD, Untangles the Truth About Marijuana

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“But Where’s Its Anus?” On How We Imagine Alien Lifeforms

By Jaime Green | April 18, 2023

The Patterns of Poetry: On the Mathematical and Poetic Value of Numbers

By Sarah Hart | April 12, 2023

The Most Mysterious of Arts: On the Science of Reading

The Most Mysterious of Arts: On the Science of Reading

Adrian Johns Considers Our Attempts to Codify and Optimize Learning

By Adrian Johns | April 7, 2023

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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