The data suggest that we tend to reach our most productive years in midlife. They also indicate that quality follows from quantity.
Keith Sawyer | Mar 16
The drug’s history of healing and experimentation stretches from ancient China to American counterculture — yet its promise remains trapped in a legal straitjacket.
Linda A. Parker | Mar 12
Triumph breeds hubris. Defeat breeds grievance. Either way, from World War II to Afghanistan, America has fueled a cycle that never ends.
Robert Jay Lifton, Neta C. Crawford, and Matthew Evangelista | Mar 9
Roger Mayne and Stuart Hall's complementary visions reveal how racial animus in London reflected a deeper post-war crisis of whiteness and masculine identity.
Nicholas Mirzoeff | Mar 5
Though wary of organized religion, the physicist believed that the harmony of universal laws pointed to a higher power.
Gerald Holton | Mar 2
Historians often reinforce evolutionist narratives that rank civilizations and nationalize invention.
Gregory Dreicer | Feb 26
How bathing spaces, long treated as sterile utilities, can become architectures of intimacy, accessibility, and embodied liberation.
Christie Pearson | Feb 24
Coaling towers are little-known railroad relics that take many forms. But each evokes a subtle grandeur of industrial might.
Jeff Brouws | Feb 23
Wars and ethical disasters laid the groundwork for global rules around medical research. But the pandemic and Trump's presidency reveal how fragile they remain.
The Editors | Feb 19
Tracing the boundaries of reason through Lucretius and Descartes, and what they reveal about the cognitive limits of both humans and machines.
Andrea Moro | Feb 17
Microgravity, radiation, and extreme climates pose ethical and biological challenges that researchers are racing to overcome.
Scott Solomon | Feb 12
The idea that it’s “too late” to reduce emissions fuels cynicism and despair, putting us on an even worse trajectory.
Hannah Ritchie | Feb 9
