“Blockchain technology is a tiny crack, a tiny shifting of the ass cheeks of capital, it’s a moment of potential for a temporary autonomous zone.”
Maya B. Kronic | Apr 11
From the marginalia of ancient tomes to the cupboards of cunning craft cottages, the toad is a living sigil found the world over as an icon of magical thinking, enchantment, and sorcery.
E.H. Wormwood | Apr 6
Rhythm plays an important role in how we perceive — and connect with — the world.
Nina Kraus | Apr 3
A new book takes an inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet.
Rebecca Foster | Mar 30
An excerpt from “Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind."
J. Allan Hobson | Mar 27
Pain is integral to the structure of the Japanese language, and related to the particularity of local building design practices.
François Blanciak | Mar 23
How do organisms that are so sedentary end up being so incredibly widely dispersed?
Thom van Dooren | Mar 20
How parenting became "optimized" and made mothers miserable.
Jessica Clements & Kari Nixon | Mar 16
Both acoustic and metaphorical, echo evokes the void left by what had been and is no longer.
Amit Pinchevski | Mar 13
How will future generations come to be? There is no straightforward answer.
Donna J. Drucker | Mar 9
Horoscopic prediction is an inherently uncertain field, as Italian polymath Gerolamo Cardano had occasion to confirm more than once.
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi | Mar 6
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