• Science

    End Times

    The Long Goodbye: Reconciling with the End of Nature

    By Madeleine Watts  January 14, 2021
    Boredom

    On the Uses of Boredom: Philosophical, Scientific, Literary

    By Martha Cooley  January 13, 2021
    Math

    How to Read Ulysses
    By the Numbers

    By Eric Bulson  January 11, 2021
    Mathematics

    Sometimes You Just Need a Math Prodigy to Explain the Quotidian Uses of the Fourth Dimension

    By Milo Beckman  January 8, 2021
    Climate Crisis Readings

    Activists, Scientists, and Poets: Your Climate Readings for January

    By Amy Brady  January 7, 2021
    Exercise

    Exercise is Good. But How Do We Make More Fun?

    By Daniel Lieberman  January 7, 2021
    Animals

    What It’s Like to Teach a
    Magpie How to Fly

    By Charlie Gilmour  January 5, 2021
    Neuroscience

    What Wave Patterns Can Tell Us About Our Personalities

    By Camilla Pang  January 4, 2021
    New Books Network

    Can We Bring Extinct Species Back? Should We?

    By New Books Network  January 4, 2021
    Drinking

    The Obvious Truth About Drinking with Colleagues

    By David Nutt  December 22, 2020
    Pets

    What Does an Animal Communicator Really Do?

    By Kelly Conaboy  December 21, 2020
    Anthropology

    Barry Lopez on the Life of a True Naturalist

    By Barry Lopez  December 18, 2020
    Technology

    On Artificial Intelligence, White Supremacy, and the Military-Industrial Complex

    By Yarden Katz  December 18, 2020
    Illness

    Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf’s Writings About Illness
    and Disability

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 16, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    What We Need: Anuradha Roy on Animals and Touch in Lockdown

    By Anuradha Roy  December 15, 2020
    Time to Eat the Dogs

    Botany and Revolution: How 18th-Century Naturalists Discouraged Ideas of Liberty

    By Time to Eat the Dogs   December 15, 2020
    Biology

    Barry Lopez on the Wolf Biologist Who Changed His Life as an Environmentalist

    By Barry Lopez  December 11, 2020
    New Books Network

    The Perils of the Hype Machine When It Comes to Science and Tech

    By New Books Network  December 10, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Helen Macdonald, James Rebanks, and Andy Fryers in Conversation

    By The Virtual Book Channel  December 3, 2020
    Philosophy

    The Painter and the Scientist:
    Unraveling the Myths About Leonardo Da Vinci

    By Francesca Fiorani  December 2, 2020
    New Books Network

    Can We Bridge the Divide Between Science and Religion?

    By New Books Network  December 2, 2020
    Medicine

    How Social Medicine Can Help Us Understand Pandemics

    By Paul Farmer  December 1, 2020
    Philosophy

    The Medieval Philosopher Who Outlined the Basics of the Universe

    By Seb Falk  November 30, 2020
    Keen On

    The Quest for the Origins of the Human Species

    By Keen On  November 27, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, November Edition

    By Book Marks  November 25, 2020
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