The Long Quest to Uncover a Sea Star Killing Bacteria
Scientists say they’ve found the cause of a marine epidemic more than ten years after it started. What took so long?
Enchanting Imposters
Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery shows that humans have been creating fan fiction and fake news for millennia.
LEGO: Brick by Ideological Brick
Toys, even ones marketed as tools for the imagination, are never value neutral.
Old Wet Farms, New Pain Meds, and New Chemistry
Well-researched stories from Mongabay, Ars Technica, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Building De Stijl Style
Piet Mondrian, co-founder of De Stijl, argued that the art movement wasn’t ready for architecture. Theo van Doesburg and others believed it was. Who was right?
The Macronutrients of the Three Sisters System
If the intercropping of beans, squash, and corn produces smaller yields, why did the the Haudenosaunee prefer the Three Sisters system?
For the Love of Gamers and Goals, It’s Cross Reference!
Or maybe this week’s puzzle is really about Greek salad and gulleys.
Listening to White Working-Class Women in Coal Country
Researchers interviewed women in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town to understand how they coped with social and economic changes tied to deindustrialization.
The Enduring Popularity of Harry Potter
How has the Harry Potter series remained so beloved across decades filled with young adult and fantasy novels?
Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Reading List
With scholarship on Indigenous knowledge, environmental justice, resistance, and decolonization, this list honors Native sovereignty and self-determination.