AI and the Creative Process: Part One
How does generative artificial intelligence upend conventional understandings of who is and what makes for a true artist?
Osage Nation, Chinese Exams, and Dead Spiders
Well-researched stories from Aeon, CrimeReads, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Sex and the Single Witch
On witch-hunting and the pursuit of sexual knowledge in early-modern England.
Why #StarringJohnCho Is Not Enough for Asian American Cinema
Filling more movie roles with Asian American actors may be the wrong goal if such visibility promotes stereotypes or buys into Hollywood's fantasies of power.
Xerox and Roll: The Corporate Machine and the Making of Punk
On the 85th anniversary of the first xerographic print, a collection of punk flyers from Cornell University provides an object lesson on (anti-)art in the age of mechanical reproduction.
The Riches of Poverty Point
Earthworks built around 3,700 years ago in Louisiana centered an exchange system that stretched up the Mississippi and into the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys.
Inventing Antarctica
We're only just getting to know "the Ice."
The Radical Street Sellers of London
Many considered street vendors dangerous, not just for their general skirting of the law but because they comprised an outspoken political force.
Israel and Gaza: A Syllabus of Background Readings
How can we help students begin to make sense of the current and recurring violence in Israel and Gaza?
How Stars Die
Nothing in this Universe is eternal—not even the stars.