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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

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

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

Stephen Walker on the Vanguard Six

By Stephen Walker | April 15, 2021

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

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

Simon McCarthy-Jones Offers a Brief History of
Small Human Vengeances

By Simon McCarthy-Jones | April 14, 2021

How Depression and Trauma Cast Multigenerational Shadows

How Depression and Trauma Cast Multigenerational Shadows

Alex Riley on Family History and the Evolution of Modern Psychiatry

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

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Are Extraterrestrials Social Distancing from Us?

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

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

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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

How Contemporary Novelists Are Confronting Climate Collapse in Fiction

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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.

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