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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

How Peter Higgs Came to Abhor of Nuclear Weapons—and Find Hope in Particle Physics

How Peter Higgs Came to Abhor of Nuclear Weapons—and Find Hope in Particle Physics

Frank Close on the Early Scientific Education of the Man Who Discovered the Higgs Boson

By Frank Close | June 15, 2022

On Discovering the First Fossil of a T. Rex

On Discovering the First Fossil of a T. Rex

In Hell Creek, Montana, With A Lot of Dynamite

By David K. Randall | June 10, 2022

How Did People Get to Britain 950,000 Years Ago?

How Did People Get to Britain 950,000 Years Ago?

Ian Morris on “Proto-Britain” Which Was Once Part of the European Continent (Literally)

By Ian Morris | June 9, 2022

29 Works of Nonfiction You Need to Read This Summer

29 Works of Nonfiction You Need to Read This Summer

Part Three of Lit Hub's Summer Preview

By Emily Temple | June 8, 2022

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

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What the Ancient Greeks Thought They Understood About Blood

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

By Jonny Diamond | May 20, 2022

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

How Math Often Distorts Our Thinking

How Math Often Distorts Our Thinking

James Zimring in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 12, 2022

From Pandemics to Nuclear Power: Why People Why People Take the Risks They Do

From Pandemics to Nuclear Power: Why People Why People Take the Risks They Do

Vaclav Smil on the Strange Choices We Make

By Vaclav Smil | May 11, 2022

Carlo Rovelli on How Literary Greats Find Inspiration in Scientific Rationality

Carlo Rovelli on How Literary Greats Find Inspiration in Scientific Rationality

Considering the Intersections of Literature and Science

By Carlo Rovelli | May 10, 2022

Revisiting the Infamous Hill Case in an Era of (More) UFO News and Government Secrets

Revisiting the Infamous Hill Case in an Era of (More) UFO News and Government Secrets

Nick Ripatrazone on the Reissue of John G. Fuller's The Interrupted Journey

By Nick Ripatrazone | May 10, 2022

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