Wolf in the snow with a radio collar around its neck

St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Will Be a New TV Series

Karen Russell St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, a short story collection by Karen Russell, will be turned into an ABC show
A Gall Wasp on a horizontal stalk

Alfred C. Kinsey On Gall Wasps and Edible Plants

Alfred Kinsey was a professor of entomology before becoming a sexologist.
Church of Scientology sign on a building

Are Academics Afraid to Study Scientology?

For a religion that some experts estimate includes only 30,000 members worldwide, Scientology attracts a lot of attention. But not so much from scholars.
A pile of tax forms

Self-Employment: Exciting Opportunity or Last Resort?

Does self-employment open up new opportunities or exploit a vulnerable workforce?
An open pack of graham crackers

A Hell of a Cracker

The unusual origin of the graham cracker
Close-up of a paycheck breakdown

Do Living Wage Laws Work?

What do living wage laws mean to workers and local economies?
Winged-arm and raptor legs are imagined on the hypothetical illustration of a Deinocheirus

Deinocheirus: At Long Last, Arms with a Body to Match

The mysterious Deinocheirus dinosaur now has a body.
Tom Magliozzi

Remembering “Car Talk” Host Tom Magliozzi

Tom Magliozzi, one of the "Tappet Brother" hosts of the popular public radio show "Car Talk" has died.
Dr. Eugene Porter Walking Dead

Walking Dead: The Science Behind the Zombies

Walking Dead: the science behind the zombies.

Hermathena

Selected items from Hermathena, a scholarly journal of classics from Trinity College, Dublin.