A harbinger of the ways in which modern life would become dominated by mechanical motion, the bicycle was a fitting subject for the first motion picture.
Bruce Bennett | Feb 13, 2020
The creative process demands openness to the unexpected and a recognition that what we “have in mind” may not be at all what is beginning to transpire before us.
Christopher Bardt | Feb 10, 2020
Incentives are as risky in parenting as they are in business.
Joshua Gans | Feb 6, 2020
Anti-pornography feminists see porn as inherently degrading and exploitative, but for some viewers it can be hugely empowering and even a challenge to rape culture.
Milena Popova | Feb 3, 2020
Prohibitionists around the world have long used rhetoric to associate the plant with violence and depravity.
Ryan Stoa | Jan 23, 2020
In order to preserve nihilism as a meaningful concept, it's necessary to distinguish it from pessimism, cynicism, and apathy.
Nolen Gertz | Jan 16, 2020
Every now and then fantastical species make their way into the scientific literature, taking the scientific community for a ride.
Michael Ohl | Jan 13, 2020
If certain areas of science appear to be quite mature, others are in the process of development, and yet others remain to be born.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal | Jan 6, 2020
Chicago sees itself as the quintessentially modern city of industry. But the urban grid emerged long before the calamity from which the city as we know it arose.
Hannah B Higgins | Jan 3, 2020
A lexicon of landscape as word, concept, and path to discoveries.
John R. Stilgoe | Dec 30, 2019