The algorithms that promise to predict wildfires and optimize energy grids are powered by servers that drink up rivers and belch out more carbon than cars.

The English thinker whose name is synonymous with doom and gloom has lessons for today.

Scientists look to “probiotics” for crops as a new green revolution in agriculture.

The term “white trash” once was used to disparage poor white people. In the Civil Rights era, its meaning shifted to support business-friendly racial politics.

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Smithsonian Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Labeling the undead figures in non-European mythology, popular culture, and academia as “vampires” doesn’t make sense.

Raised in a family of storytellers, Augusta Baker continued that tradition, imparting a love of books to readers of all ages.

The Hausa people of northern Nigeria have adapted—and continue to transform—sacred Islamic calligraphy that originated in the Arab world.

As photography became more popular in occupied Taiwan, the camera subtly captured the shifting boundaries between Japanese colonizers and their Taiwanese subjects.

Freely available images and other primary source materials from the JSTOR Collections.