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How Do the Books We Read Change Our Brains?

How Do the Books We Read Change Our Brains?

Gregory Berns on Measuring the Effects of a Really Good Story

By Gregory Berns | October 20, 2022

How Potato Blight Made Ireland Into a Country of Emigrants

How Potato Blight Made Ireland Into a Country of Emigrants

Sean Connolly on Famine-Induced Mass Migration

By Sean Connolly | October 17, 2022

Instinct vs. Insight: How Much Foresight Do Animals Have?

Instinct vs. Insight: How Much Foresight Do Animals Have?

Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley on the Capacity to Think Ahead

By Thomas Suddendorf, Jonathan Redshaw, and Adam Bulley | September 22, 2022

What the Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment of Marvin Anderson Reveals About the American Legal System

What the Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment of Marvin Anderson Reveals About the American Legal System

Daniel S. Medwed on the Biases and Systemic Failures That Keep Innocent People in Prison

By Daniel S. Medwed | September 21, 2022

How Black History Saved Me: Peniel E. Joseph on His Path to Scholar-Activism

How Black History Saved Me: Peniel E. Joseph on His Path to Scholar-Activism

Tracing an Education, from W.E.B. Du Bois to Sonia Sanchez

By Peniel E. Joseph | September 14, 2022

How Christianity Influenced the Development of Capitalism in Medieval Europe

How Christianity Influenced the Development of Capitalism in Medieval Europe

Jacob Soll on Piety and Profits in the Middle Ages

By Jacob Soll | September 9, 2022

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How American Conservatives Embraced Intellectual Justifications of Racism

By Nicole Hemmer | August 31, 2022

The “Democratization” of Everything: On Conflating Democracy and the Market

By Jedediah Purdy | August 30, 2022

Bringing Math to the Many: A Reading List

By G. Arnell Williams | August 26, 2022

How Peter Higgs Came to Abhor of Nuclear Weapons—and Find Hope in Particle Physics

How Peter Higgs Came to Abhor of Nuclear Weapons—and Find Hope in Particle Physics

Frank Close on the Early Scientific Education of the Man Who Discovered the Higgs Boson

By Frank Close | June 15, 2022

Thought They Understood About Blood">What the Ancient Greeks <emThought They Understood About Blood">

Thought They Understood About Blood">What the Ancient Greeks Thought They Understood About Blood

Dr. Dhun Sethna on Homer, Hippocrates, and the Vascular System

By Dr. Dhun Sethna | June 7, 2022

How Texas Was Born of Revolution and Settler-Colonialism

How Texas Was Born of Revolution and Settler-Colonialism

Sam W. Haynes on the Indigenous Origins of Continental America's Largest State

By Sam W. Haynes | May 5, 2022

What Does It Mean to Understand Pain?

What Does It Mean to Understand Pain?

Haider Warraich Considers the Complexity and Meanings of Chronic Pain

By Haider Warraich | April 19, 2022

On the West’s Demonization of Ancient Persia

On the West’s Demonization of Ancient Persia

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Unmasks the Philhellenic Myths That Made Europe

By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones | April 14, 2022

How Racial Bias Facilitated the US Child Welfare System’s Targeting of Black Communities

How Racial Bias Facilitated the US Child Welfare System’s Targeting of Black Communities

Dorothy Roberts on the Policing of Black Families

By Dorothy Roberts | April 7, 2022

How the World’s Languages Evolved Over Time

How the World’s Languages Evolved Over Time

Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater on the Solidification of Linguistic Conventions

By Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater | March 29, 2022

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