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Science & Tech	J. Allan Hobson: ‘That Car Looks Like It’s Been In an Accident’ An excerpt from “Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind." J. Allan Hobson \| Mar 27
Culture	Tokyoids: The Aesthetics of Dismemberment in Japan Pain is integral to the structure of the Japanese language, and related to the particularity of local building design practices. François Blanciak \| Mar 23
Environment	The Mysterious Deep Time Movements of Snails How do organisms that are so sedentary end up being so incredibly widely dispersed? Thom van Dooren \| Mar 20
Science & Tech	The Tyranny of Science Over Mothers How parenting became "optimized" and made mothers miserable. Jessica Clements & Kari Nixon \| Mar 16
Culture	If Walls Could Speak: Echoes as a Link to the Past Both acoustic and metaphorical, echo evokes the void left by what had been and is no longer. Amit Pinchevski \| Mar 13
Science & Tech	The Future of Fertility Technology, From Technosemen to Uterine Transplants How will future generations come to be? There is no straightforward answer. Donna J. Drucker \| Mar 9
Science & Tech	The Blunders of a 16th-Century Physician-Astrologer Horoscopic prediction is an inherently uncertain field, as Italian polymath Gerolamo Cardano had occasion to confirm more than once. Frank Gonzalez-Crussi \| Mar 6
Philosophy	Grief Worlds: In Conversation With Philosopher Matthew Ratcliffe Matthew Ratcliffe’s book "Grief Worlds" is a wide-ranging philosophical exploration of what it is to experience grief and what this tells us about human emotional life. The Editors \| Mar 2
Science & Tech	The Clue to the Labyrinth: Francis Bacon and the Decryption of Nature Though he did not anticipate the power of symbolic mathematics, by invoking the example of codebreaking, the 17th-century philosopher prepared for the later union of mathematics with experimental science. Peter Pesic \| Feb 27
Culture	Cecilia Pavón: The Flawed Concept of Coupledom A short story from the celebrated Argentinian poet and writer’s new collection “Little Joy.” Cecilia Pavón \| Feb 20
Science & Tech	In Search of the Impossible Machine, the Artificial Heart The history of the total artificial heart is punctuated with both brilliant innovation and continual clinical failure. Sian E. Harding \| Feb 14
Culture	The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries The goal is not to expose the “slipups” of the masters but to understand the human brain. Roberto Casati & Patrick Cavanagh \| Feb 13