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Interdisciplinary Magic: What the Humanities Can Reveal About Scientific Pursuits

Interdisciplinary Magic: What the Humanities Can Reveal About Scientific Pursuits

Robert P. Baird on His Transformative Academic and Literary Journey From Engineer to Writer

By Robert P. Baird | June 16, 2025

What Submersibles Reveal About the Violent Underbelly of the Human Psyche

What Submersibles Reveal About the Violent Underbelly of the Human Psyche

Matthew Gavin Frank Explores the Dark Side of Our Desire to Explore the Ocean’s Depths

By Matthew Gavin Frank | June 12, 2025

Dad Books: a flowchart.

Dad Books: a flowchart.

A Father's Day flowchart.

By Brittany Allen | June 11, 2025

The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice

The Scientific Detective: How Luis W. Alvarez Pursued Theory Through Practice

Alec Nevala-Lee on the Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist's Experimental Approach to Scientific Inquiry

By Alec Nevala-Lee | June 11, 2025

What Does a Million Years Mean to You? Five Books That Explore Deep Time

What Does a Million Years Mean to You? Five Books That Explore Deep Time

Tim Weed Recommends Robert Hazen, Marcia Bjornerud, Thomas Halliday and More

By Tim Weed | June 4, 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

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On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine

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Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna Explore AI History, the Cold War, and a Fatally Overhyped Idea

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On Science, Ancient Philosophy, and Re-Enchanting Nature

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M.D. Usher Takes Stock of Anthropocentric Ideas in the Anthropocene

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Mushroom Cloud Over Manhattan: What Would Happen in the First Few Hours of Nuclear War

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Mark Lynas Looks at a Worst-Case Scenario—and How to Prevent it From Becoming a Reality

By Mark Lynas | May 12, 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

Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange

Ornament, Etiquette, Identity, Food: A Personal History of the Orange

Katie Goh Ponders Citrus in Art and Life

By Katie Goh | May 7, 2025

Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

By Brittany Allen | May 5, 2025

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