"When I open my mouth, I am bracing for impact."
Jonathan Cole | May 15, 2025
Win a Nobel, and you’ll never be ignored again — whether you like it or not.
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The first book-length exploration of the Mothman sightings, “The Silver Bridge” is also something much stranger and more expansive.
Gabriel Mckee | May 6, 2025
Through sacred geometry and cosmic alignment, Greek temples transformed ordinary spaces into gateways to the divine.
Christopher Bardt | May 2, 2025
The rise of a “shadow gospel” reveals how deeply the language of demons and deliverance has shaped American politics.
Whitney Phillips & Mark Brockway | Apr 28, 2025
Scent has long been used to mark otherness, enforce hierarchies, and justify exclusion.
Françoise Vergès | Apr 22, 2025
If everything is narrative, the meaninglessness of narrative is more or less implied.
Philipp Schönthaler | Apr 18, 2025
A rare sound recording of the ivory-billed woodpecker became both a touchstone for conservationists and the center of a scientific debate that continues to this day.
Joeri Bruyninckx | Apr 10, 2025
From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.
Jeremy Stolow | Apr 7, 2025
From the cockpit to consumer tech, synthetic voices shed light on the deep-rooted gender biases embedded in our technologies.
Sarah A. Bell | Apr 3, 2025
