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The Oddest of Organs: A Brief History of the Tongue

The Oddest of Organs: A Brief History of the Tongue

Kate Crowcroft: “The tongue is employed as a metaphor for the extension and consumption of aeons.”

By Kate Crowcroft | June 22, 2022

Why the Crisis of Teenage Anxiety Might Begin and End With Sleep Deprivation

Why the Crisis of Teenage Anxiety Might Begin and End With Sleep Deprivation

Lisa Lewis in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 21, 2022

What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Fat

What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Fat

David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé on the Evolving Science Around What We Eat

By David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé | June 21, 2022

Why Is It I Keep Seeing the Same Painting Everywhere I Look?

Why Is It I Keep Seeing the Same Painting Everywhere I Look?

A Tale of Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon (in English and Italian)

By Gianluca Didino | June 17, 2022

How Peter Higgs Came to Abhor of Nuclear Weapons—and Find Hope in Particle Physics

How Peter Higgs Came to Abhor of Nuclear Weapons—and Find Hope in Particle Physics

Frank Close on the Early Scientific Education of the Man Who Discovered the Higgs Boson

By Frank Close | June 15, 2022

On Discovering the First Fossil of a T. Rex

On Discovering the First Fossil of a T. Rex

In Hell Creek, Montana, With A Lot of Dynamite

By David K. Randall | June 10, 2022

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How Growing Up In the Digital Age Impacts Young Minds

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Carl D. Marci on the Pitfalls of Plugged-In Children

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How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe

“To many in the Western world, the fact that the mind was free but separate from the heavenly soul was unbearable.”

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary | May 18, 2022

Finally Some Good News: Why We Might All Be Altruistic Creatures

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Stephanie D. Preston in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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How Math Often Distorts Our Thinking

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James Zimring in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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From Pandemics to Nuclear Power: Why People Why People Take the Risks They Do

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Vaclav Smil on the Strange Choices We Make

By Vaclav Smil | May 11, 2022

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