Where Do Posthumanist Fantasies of Tech-Enabled Life Fit Into Evolution?

Where Do Posthumanist Fantasies of Tech-Enabled Life Fit Into Evolution?

Melanie Challenger on the Endless Desire to Be Done With Bodies

By Melanie Challenger | March 24, 2021

Saving Nora: What It’s Like to Operate on a 500-Pound Polar Bear

Saving Nora: What It’s Like to Operate on a 500-Pound Polar Bear

Kale Williams on the Challenges and Risks of Animal Surgery

By Kale Williams | March 19, 2021

Copywriters beware! A copywriting AI has just raised nearly $3 million in funding.

Copywriters beware! A copywriting AI has just raised nearly $3 million in funding.

By Walker Caplan | March 18, 2021

This website turns all our collective Wikipedia editing into ambient music in real time.

This website turns all our collective Wikipedia editing into ambient music in real time.

By Walker Caplan | March 18, 2021

How the Salvation of New York City Drinking Water Can Be a Model for Saving the Planet

How the Salvation of New York City Drinking Water Can Be a Model for Saving the Planet

Michael Heller and James Salzman on the Concept
of “As-If” Ownership

By Michael Heller and James Salzman | March 18, 2021

Charles Darwin’s Great Uncertainty: Decoding the Age of Our Planet

Charles Darwin’s Great Uncertainty: Decoding the Age of Our Planet

Paul Sen on the Unlikely Relationship Between Thermodynamics
and Evolution

By Paul Sen | March 16, 2021

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A new species of jumping spider has been named after Eric Carle.

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How Do We Prepare Boys for Healthy Relationships?

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Apparently John Steinbeck once wrote a horror story about a boy being chewed by his own gum.

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Elizabeth Kolbert: Cleaning Up America’s Filthy Rivers May Be a Neverending Job

Elizabeth Kolbert: Cleaning Up America’s Filthy Rivers May Be a Neverending Job

“First you reverse a river. Then you electrify it.”

By Elizabeth Kolbert | March 9, 2021

On the Frontlines of the Battle to Preserve the American West

On the Frontlines of the Battle to Preserve the American West

From White Nationalists to Endangered Tortoises, Michelle Nijhuis Encounters the Modern Wilderness

By Michelle Nijhuis | March 9, 2021

And Death Shall Have Dominion: Tales of Doctors, Their Patients, and What Comes For Us All

And Death Shall Have Dominion: Tales of Doctors, Their Patients, and What Comes For Us All

Theodore Dalrymple Recommends Mikhail Bulgakov,
W.W. Jacobs, and More

By Theodore Dalrymple | March 9, 2021

Octavia Butler is now officially on Mars.

Octavia Butler is now officially on Mars.

By Walker Caplan | March 8, 2021

Modern Parents Could Learn a Lot From Hunter-Gatherer Families

Modern Parents Could Learn a Lot From Hunter-Gatherer Families

Michaeleen Doucleff on Childcare Throughout Human History

By Michaeleen Doucleff | March 8, 2021

How the Trillion-Dollar Processed Food Industry Manipulates Our Instinctual Desires

How the Trillion-Dollar Processed Food Industry Manipulates Our Instinctual Desires

Michael Moss Connects Our Prehistoric Ancestors to Our Love of Aldi

By Michael Moss | March 5, 2021

The Long Silencing of Women in Science Continues Today

The Long Silencing of Women in Science Continues Today

Olivia Campbell on the Unremembered and Underappreciated

By Olivia Campbell | March 5, 2021

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