• Science

    Keen On

    Brains, Breasts, Bowels, and Bladders: A History of the World Through Body Parts

    By Keen On  September 15, 2022
    Anthropology

    What Rituals Across Cultures Reveal About the Human Condition

    By Dimitris Xygalatas  September 14, 2022
    Books

    Was It Ever Possible For One Person To Read Every Book Ever Written (in English)?

    By Randall Munroe  September 13, 2022
    Neuroscience

    Gut Feelings: How Does Intuition Work, Anyway?

    By Elaine Fox  September 12, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    David G. Haskell on the Beginning of Sound on Earth

    By Emergence Magazine  September 12, 2022
    Climate Change

    David Suzuki on the Urgency of Scientific Education in an Era of Climate Emergency

    By David Suzuki  September 8, 2022
    Animals

    On Wildness and Communication: Exploring the Inner Lives of Animals in Fiction

    By Talia Lakshmi Kolluri  September 8, 2022
    Animals

    Law of the Tongue: When Humans and Killer Whales Hunt Together

    By Tom Mustill  September 7, 2022
    Pollution

    How a Nuclear Site in Washington State Poisoned Its Own Workers

    By Joshua Frank  September 7, 2022
    Cities

    How Global Cities Can Best Adapt to the Coming Climate Crisis

    By Gaia Vince  August 29, 2022
    Keen On

    Why American Medicine Does Such a Bad Job of Dealing With Life’s Greatest Mystery: Death

    By Keen On  August 29, 2022
    Creativity

    How Creative Thinking Can—and Should—Inform Medical Science

    By Dr. Jay Baruch  August 29, 2022
    Keen On

    Is the “Serendipity” of “Good Luck” Just More Neo-Liberal Pseudo-Science From Our Business School Elite?

    By Keen On  August 26, 2022
    Death

    How Death Masks Blur the Lines Between Art, Mourning, and Remembrance

    By Hayley Campbell  August 24, 2022
    Keen On

    The End of Bias: How to Create a More Just (and Prosperous) World

    By Keen On  August 22, 2022
    Keen On

    If Nietzsche Was a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

    By Keen On  August 19, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Steven W. Thrasher on How Viruses Affect Economic Mobility As Much As Health

    By The Maris Review  August 18, 2022
    Cosmology

    How We Humans Created the Universe

    By Moiya McTier  August 17, 2022
    Weather

    How It Feels To Chase a Tornado Across Three States

    By Matthew Cappucci  August 15, 2022
    Eating

    What Can the Way We Eat and Enjoy Food Tell Us About Ourselves?

    By Jehanne Dubrow  August 12, 2022
    Philosophy

    Is This Real Life? Do We Live in a Computer Simulation or Not?

    By Sabine Hossenfelder  August 11, 2022
    Animals

    What Does Animal Grief Tell Us About How They Understand Death?

    By Justin Gregg  August 10, 2022
    Keen On

    An Existential Physicist Answers Life’s Biggest Questions: Does God Exist? Is There Life in the Universe? Are We Living In a Simulated Reality?

    By Keen On  August 10, 2022
    Keen On

    If the World is a Giant Simulation, What’s the Difference Between the Virtual Reality and “Real Life”?

    By Keen On  August 9, 2022
    Industrial Farming

    How What We Eat and How We Eat It Helps Contribute To Climate Change

    By George Monbiot  August 8, 2022
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