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Does a Color Exist If We Don’t Have a Name For It?

Does a Color Exist If We Don’t Have a Name For It?

Adam Rogers on the Gap Between Concept and Language

By Adam Rogers | May 21, 2021

Michael Lewis on Writing an “Oddly Reassuring Story About American Government”

Michael Lewis on Writing an “Oddly Reassuring Story About American Government”

In Conversation with Christopher Lydon on Radio Open Source

By Open Source | May 21, 2021

Who Were the First Humans to Start Cooking Meat? And Why?

Who Were the First Humans to Start Cooking Meat? And Why?

Alex Bezzerides Digs Into Mankind's Culinary History

By Alex Bezzerides | May 21, 2021

Do Our Minds Have Immune Systems to Protect Us from Infectious Ideas?

Do Our Minds Have Immune Systems to Protect Us from Infectious Ideas?

Andy Norman in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 19, 2021

Symbiosis and Psychedelics: An Exploratory Conversation Between Edward St. Aubyn and Merlin Sheldrake

Symbiosis and Psychedelics: An Exploratory Conversation Between Edward St. Aubyn and Merlin Sheldrake

The Author of Double Blind and the Author of Entangled Life Talk Scientific Inquiry

By Merlin Sheldrake and Edward St. Aubyn | May 17, 2021

Public vs. Private: A Bet Between Two Astronauts to See Who Gets to Space First

Public vs. Private: A Bet Between Two Astronauts to See Who Gets to Space First

Nicholas Schmidle on the Jack Fischer and Mark Stucky Wagered a Night of Margaritas

By Nicholas Schmidle | May 17, 2021

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Why Is It So Hard to Talk About Money?

By Anna Sale | May 7, 2021

The Truth is Out There: On the Wild and Divisive World of Cryptozoology

By T. S. Mart and Mel Cabre | May 6, 2021

Polar Nightmare: On One of the First International Expeditions of the Modern Era

By Julian Sancton | May 4, 2021

What the “Traditional Conception” of Physics Fails to Account For

What the “Traditional Conception” of Physics Fails to Account For

Chiara Marletto on the World-Opening Potential of Counterfactuals

By Chiara Marletto | May 4, 2021

Objectophilia: On the People Who Fall in Love with Inanimate Things

Objectophilia: On the People Who Fall in Love with Inanimate Things

“People love objects because they reflect what we value in ourselves.”

By Genki Ferguson | April 30, 2021

“A House is Just a Pile of Stuff with a Cover on It.” When Less Really is More

“A House is Just a Pile of Stuff with a Cover on It.” When Less Really is More

Leidy Klotz on How Hard It Can Be to Truly Subtract From Our Lives

By Leidy Klotz | April 30, 2021

On What Emotional Attachment to Robots Might Mean for the Future

On What Emotional Attachment to Robots Might Mean for the Future

Kate Darling Considers the As-Yet Untold Exploitation of Our Dependence on AI

By Kate Darling | April 29, 2021

You can now read Jane Austen in . . . molecule form.

You can now read Jane Austen in . . . molecule form.

By Walker Caplan | April 23, 2021

The Cartography of Wolves

The Cartography of Wolves

Tony Hiss on Pluie, the Lone Wolf, and Her Lessons on Landscape

By Tony Hiss | April 22, 2021

Why Don’t We Talk More About Sibling Estrangement?

Why Don’t We Talk More About Sibling Estrangement?

Fern Schumer Chapman in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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