An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal accidents.
James Lovelock | Sep 8
A classic critique shows how creationists’ calls for “equal time” in classrooms blurred the line between legitimate scientific debate and intellectual imposture.
Philip Kitcher | Sep 2
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
Women in physics have long been forced out of the field, and out of the story.
Shohini Ghose | Aug 26
Once America’s great hope, innovation culture eventually met its fiercest critics.
Matthew Wisnioski | Aug 22
The interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums.
Samuel Jay Keyser | Aug 19
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
How evolution wired us to act against our own best interests.
Telmo Pievani | Aug 12
A story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom.
Ben Collier | Aug 8
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
