Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death.
Nicholas de Monchaux | Apr 9
It gains its real power when embedded in webs of relationship and shared meaning-making.
Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett | Apr 6
Seemingly harmless data tweaks are undermining the integrity of the entire field. We must define the problem to prevent it.
Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer | Mar 23
In Korea and Japan, humanoid machines aren’t rivals but partners, assisting with elder care, creating jobs for people with disabilities, and even leading religious rituals.
Candi K. Cann | Mar 19
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
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
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
