An excerpt from Didier Eribon's book "The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman," a personal and philosophical reflection on the question of old age as a limit concept of Western thought.
Didier Eribon | Oct 7
The system of federally funded research gave the U.S. wealth, power, and prestige. Its future is now uncertain.
Jonathan D. Moreno | Oct 2
Karel Styblo’s life work against tuberculosis created a system that has saved millions, even if his name remains largely unknown.
Tom Frieden | Sep 29
Esolangs, or esoteric programming languages, highlight the hidden metaphors and conventions that structure mainstream programming.
Daniel Temkin | Sep 25
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
Samuel Jay Keyser on why repetition enchants the mind, and what evolution has to do with it.
Samuel Jay Keyser | Sep 18
Engaging in ritual for ritual’s sake only deepens nihilism.
Nolen Gertz | Sep 15
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
A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances.
Richard Cytowic | Aug 29
Women in physics have long been forced out of the field, and out of the story.
Shohini Ghose | Aug 26
