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How the Sinister Study of Eugenics Legitimized Forced Sterilization in the United States

How the Sinister Study of Eugenics Legitimized Forced Sterilization in the United States

Audrey Clare Farley on the Scientists Who Weaponized Biology

By Audrey Clare Farley | April 22, 2021

Alyssa Collins has been awarded the Octavia E. Butler Fellowship.

Alyssa Collins has been awarded the Octavia E. Butler Fellowship.

By Walker Caplan | April 21, 2021

Rediscovering the Scientist-Priest Who Radically Changed Our View of the Universe

Rediscovering the Scientist-Priest Who Radically Changed Our View of the Universe

Guido Tonelli on the Intuition of Georges Lemaître

By Guido Tonelli | April 19, 2021

On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

From Charles Darwin to Toni Morrison, Jeremy DeSilva Looks at
Our Need to Move

By Jeremy DeSilva | April 19, 2021

Simon Winchester Advises Against Eating Polar Bear Liver

Simon Winchester Advises Against Eating Polar Bear Liver

This Week from the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | April 15, 2021

From K-Pop to a Bach Cantata: How the Brain Recognizes Music

From K-Pop to a Bach Cantata: How the Brain Recognizes Music

Michael Spitzer Looks at the Universality of Rhythm and Melody

By Michael Spitzer | April 15, 2021

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Inside the Secret Facility Where the USSR’s First Cosmonauts Trained

By Stephen Walker | April 15, 2021

On Spite: The Pros and Cons of Being Deeply... Petty

By Simon McCarthy-Jones | April 14, 2021

How Depression and Trauma Cast Multigenerational Shadows

By Alex Riley | April 13, 2021

If You Threw a Book Into a Black Hole, Would It Ever Come<br> Out Again?

If You Threw a Book Into a Black Hole, Would It Ever Come
Out Again?

Michio Kaku Has Some Questions

By Michio Kaku | April 6, 2021

How Animal Intelligence Helps Us Speculate About the<br> Alien Mind

How Animal Intelligence Helps Us Speculate About the
Alien Mind

Arik Kershenbaum on the Role of Evolutionary Biology
in Brain Development

By Arik Kershenbaum | March 31, 2021

Are Extraterrestrials Social Distancing from Us?

Are Extraterrestrials Social Distancing from Us?

Avi Loeb in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 31, 2021

<em>The Code Breaker</em> by Walter Isaacson, Read by Kathe Mazur and Walter Isaacson

The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson, Read by Kathe Mazur and Walter Isaacson

On Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR, and More

By Behind the Mic | March 31, 2021

Kidneys, Twins, and Pathological Optimism: The Story of the First Successful Organ Transplant

Kidneys, Twins, and Pathological Optimism: The Story of the First Successful Organ Transplant

Brandy Schillace on Dr. Joseph E. Murray's Groundbreaking Surgery

By Brandy Schillace | March 29, 2021

On the Accidental Career of E.O. Wilson

On the Accidental Career of E.O. Wilson

David Quammen Considers the Life of a Naturalist

By David Quammen | March 26, 2021

Telling Tales of Climate Collapse: Novelists Weigh In

Telling Tales of Climate Collapse: Novelists Weigh In

Part Two of Amy Brady’s Conversation with Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Madeleine Watts,
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By Amy Brady | March 25, 2021

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