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, 2025
Women in physics have long been forced out of the field, and out of the story.
Shohini Ghose | Aug 26, 2025
Once America’s great hope, innovation culture eventually met its fiercest critics.
Matthew Wisnioski | Aug 22, 2025
The interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums.
Samuel Jay Keyser | Aug 19, 2025
An excerpt from the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist’s 1991 book “Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture.”
Slavoj Žižek | Aug 15, 2025
How evolution wired us to act against our own best interests.
Telmo Pievani | Aug 12, 2025
A story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom.
Ben Collier | Aug 8, 2025
Eye makers for millennia have been trying to re-create the expressionist power of the human body’s most complex and emotionally meaningful visible organ.
Dan Roche | Aug 5, 2025
Decades of global surveys point to a single, consistent foundation of well-being: our relationships.
Tim Lomas | Jul 31, 2025
Owen Flanagan explores how Buddhism reconciles meaning and science — without a creator, a soul, or supernatural scaffolding.
Owen Flanagan | Jul 28, 2025
If there is no clear evidence of brain abnormalities in psychopathic persons, why do so many scientists keep portraying psychopathy as a neurodevelopmental disorder?
Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen | Jul 22, 2025
The evolutionary story behind meat consumption is more complicated — and less convincing — than it sounds.
Gidon Eshel | Jul 17, 2025
