In describing how they remember their lines, actors are telling us an important truth about memory.
John Seamon | May 21, 2024
The Parisian Cabaret du Néant pioneered shock entertainment, using magic to conjure macabre illusions for its audience.
Mel Gordon | May 17, 2024
An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar... and mull over survival.
Peter Watts | May 13, 2024
An excerpt from Iris Moon’s “Melancholy Wedgwood,” an experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood.
Iris Moon | May 9, 2024
Dennett's classic story raises deep philosophical questions about identity and consciousness.
Daniel Dennett | May 6, 2024
Clinical psychologist and bestselling author Kay Redfield Jamison explores mood disorders from antiquity to the present, blending science, history, and personal memoir.
Kay Redfield Jamison | May 2, 2024
E.F. Schumacher's classic 1968 essay shifted focus from capitalism to individual well-being, prioritizing holistic welfare over financial exchange systems.
Ernst Fritz Schumacher | Apr 30, 2024
The saga of People's Grocery stands as a powerful reminder of the centrality of Black radicalism to the food justice movement.
Faron Levesque | Apr 26, 2024
Alexander Milton Ross's tale reveals striking similarities to today's vaccine hesitancy and the enduring challenge of combating misinformation campaigns.
Sabrina Sholts | Apr 22, 2024
The saga of Clarence Hiskey, a chemist employed by the Manhattan Project, and Arthur Adams, a spy-runner, has largely fallen down a memory hole.
Harvey Klehr & John Earl Haynes | Apr 18, 2024
An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”
Nicholas Humphrey | Apr 15, 2024
Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.
Karen Bakker | Apr 11, 2024
