Global events such as pandemics can momentarily focus attention on a fundamentally overlooked pre-existing human condition: the sheer inequality of how individuals in power decide who lives and who dies.
John Troyer | Sep 13, 2021
The idea that other worlds might be home to alien beings has been part of our thought for as long as we have been looking skyward.
Wade Roush | Aug 3, 2021
To fully understand race and genetics, we have to consider where we came from and how we got here.
Stanley Fields and Mark Johnston | Jul 30, 2021
During WWI the act of hearing was recast as a tactical activity — one that could determine human and even national survival.
Gascia Ouzounian | Jul 26, 2021
Even before the idea of climate change took hold, sci-fi began to think of the planet as something that preceded our species and could conceivably continue without us.
Sherryl Vint | Jul 20, 2021
A short catalog of wondrous beings, excerpted from Emmanuelle Pouydebat's book "Atlas of Poetic Zoology."
Emmanuelle Pouydebat | Illustrations by Julie Terrazzoni | Jul 13, 2021
An anthropologist looks to Finland to argue that solutions must go far beyond reversing Trump’s policies.
Vincent Ialenti | Jun 22, 2021
Linguistic and cognitive anthropologist Stephen Chrisomalis reckons with numbers and the mind.
Philip Laughlin | Jun 21, 2021
In Jorge Luis Borges's story of barely 12 pages, the celebrated writer plays with the infinite in a context of vast labyrinths of memory and the consequences of having an unlimited capacity to remember.
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga | Jun 16, 2021
A survey of trepanation, or trephination, the oldest surgical procedure known to humanity.
Charles G. Gross | Jun 11, 2021
