From storms to oil booms, the region’s past is marked by extraction, upheaval, and the migrations they set in motion.
Thomas Princen | Nov 7
Writing "The Red Riviera" taught me that even flawed socialist systems offered insights into equality, solidarity, and the dignity of everyday life.
Kristen Ghodsee, Duke University Press | Nov 6
Tracing cybernetics in China from Norbert Wiener’s visit to Qian Xuesen’s systems thinking and Mao’s “electronic revolution.”
Wang Hongzhe | translated by Allen Young | Nov 3
Across millennia, a cave painter and a son confront the shadows of creation and loss. A story from A.J. Ashworth’s new collection “Maybe the Birds.”
A.J. Ashworth | Oct 22
The port city lives as both place and projection, a landscape forever rewriting itself.
William Firebrace | Oct 16
We have come a long way, but we have much more work to do.
Alison Rand | Oct 13
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
Blaise Agüera y Arcas | Sep 22
What frogs teach us about sex, science, and why biology is messier than we think.
Ambika Kamath & Melina Packer | Sep 11
An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal accidents.
James Lovelock | Sep 8
A classic critique shows how creationists’ calls for “equal time” in classrooms blurred the line between legitimate scientific debate and intellectual imposture.
Philip Kitcher | Sep 2
