Your Brain is a Clock (Nautilus)
by Dan Falk
From catching a ball to holding a conversation, our ability to function depends on calibrating our brains to action happening in the world around us. And our minds’ grasp of time may also be one of the things that make us a unique life form.
Where Mountain Streams Come From (Eos)
by Mark DeGraff
Each spring, snow melts on the mountains of the American West, and streams across the region burst with fast-flowing water. But new research shows that the intuitive assumption that the water is mostly newly melted snow or fresh rain is dead wrong.
Black Women for Human Rights (Black Perspectives)
by Keisha N. Blain
Black women have often been at the center of calls for universal human rights, linking abuses in the US to struggles in Africa and around the world.
The Radicalism of a “Boring” Philosopher (Liberal Currents)
by Matthew McManus
As political philosophers go, John Rawls isn’t the most grand, sweeping thinker. But his defense of liberalism, which rejects considerations of what anyone deserves, is in some ways more radical than many flashier schools of thought.
What is the New Apostolic Reformation? (The Conversation)
by Art Jipson
Leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation generally don’t call for violence, but people linked to it have been involved in attacks. What ideas drive this politically radical Christian movement?
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