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Put Down That Flyswatter: Why We Need Flies to Exist

Put Down That Flyswatter: Why We Need Flies to Exist

Oliver Milman on Our Great Debt to Insects

By Oliver Milman | March 14, 2022

Why Do Some People Believe the Earth is Flat?

Why Do Some People Believe the Earth is Flat?

Kelly Weill on What Draws People To Conspiracies

By Kelly Weill | March 10, 2022

How David George Haskell Decodes the Sounds of Our Natural World

How David George Haskell Decodes the Sounds of Our Natural World

The Author of Sounds Wild and Broken Goes in Search of Birdsong, Elk Calls and More

By David George Haskell | March 10, 2022

What a Scan of Vladimir Putin’s Power-Addled Brain Might Tell Us

What a Scan of Vladimir Putin’s Power-Addled Brain Might Tell Us

Brian Klaas in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 9, 2022

Can ecological extinction models help us understand the literature we’ve lost?

Can ecological extinction models help us understand the literature we’ve lost?

By Jonny Diamond | March 8, 2022

Potions, Pills, and Patents: How Basic Healthcare Became Big Business in America

Potions, Pills, and Patents: How Basic Healthcare Became Big Business in America

Alexander Zaitchik on the Rise of Medical Moneymaking

By Alexander Zaitchik | March 4, 2022

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Where Does Childhood Wonder Come From—And Why Does it End?

By Frank C. Keil | March 2, 2022

Kathy Gilsinan on the Different Kinds of War We’re Facing Right Now

By Keen On | March 2, 2022

Jackie Higgins on What Animals Reveal About Our Senses

By Keen On | March 1, 2022

Worlds Unseen and Unimagined: On Learning About Human Senses Through the Animal Kingdom

Worlds Unseen and Unimagined: On Learning About Human Senses Through the Animal Kingdom

Jackie Higgins Considers the Abundance of Biodiversity All Around Us

By Jackie Higgins | February 28, 2022

Carl Erik Fisher on Undoing the Notion of Addiction as an Irredeemable State

Carl Erik Fisher on Undoing the Notion of Addiction as an Irredeemable State

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | February 23, 2022

The Real Life and Times of the Scientist Who Inspired <em>Dr. Strangelove</em>

The Real Life and Times of the Scientist Who Inspired Dr. Strangelove

Ananyo Bhattacharya on the Brilliance of John von Neumann

By Ananyo Bhattacharya | February 23, 2022

Soon there might be a new global library—of the sounds fish make.

Soon there might be a new global library—of the sounds fish make.

By Walker Caplan | February 22, 2022

Observing the Beautiful, Secret Lives of Sandhoppers

Observing the Beautiful, Secret Lives of Sandhoppers

Adam Nicolson on an Overlooked Beach-Dweller

By Adam Nicolson | February 22, 2022

How much lost medieval literature is there? A wildlife-tracking method may have the answer.

How much lost medieval literature is there? A wildlife-tracking method may have the answer.

By Walker Caplan | February 18, 2022

On the Victorian Science and Prejudices Behind Bram Stoker’s <em>Dracula</em>

On the Victorian Science and Prejudices Behind Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Vidya Krishnan Looks at How 19th-Century Concerns About Disease Mirror Those of the Modern World

By Vidya Krishnan | February 18, 2022

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