Talk about This, Not That
Looking to avoid politics at the holiday dinner table? Food trivia, ground-up mummy pigment, and snake jaws ought to do the trick.
Thanksgiving, Vaping Fear, and Financial Climate Crisis
Well-researched stories from The American Prospect, The New Yorker, and other great publications.
An Early Review of On the Origin of Species
"Darwin openly and almost scornfully repudiates the whole doctrine of Final Causes. He finds no indication of design or purpose anywhere..."
When and Where Did Abraham Lincoln Write the Gettysburg Address?
Theories abound. Historian William H. Lambert considers the origin of the address and the mythology surrounding its composition.
Dementia, Cancer, and Adorable Wildlife
Well-researched stories from Scientific American, Wired, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Math, Virginity Tests, and Pad Thai
Well-researched stories from Atlas Obscura, The Atlantic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Clean Brains, Fake Languages, and Scary Tech
Well-researched stories from Wired, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
High Misdemeanors, Gaming Addiction, and Lots of Ghosts
Well-researched stories from Vox, The Atlantic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Suicide, Sectarianism, and Short Sleepers
Well-researched stories from Aeon, NPR, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Oscar Wilde’s Pamphlet: “Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life”
Wilde's description is heart-wrenching, but that doesn't hold him back from the usual wit and drama that characterize his writing.
Noise, Xenophobia, and Viking Women
Well-researched stories from Wired, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Che Guevara
In 1964, 5 years after the end of the Cuban revolution, Che Guevara wrote for an academic journal. Read the Cuban leader in his own words.
An African Queen, Alien Signals, and Poison Eating
Well-researched stories from Longreads, The Atlantic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Looming Impeachment, Cheap DNA, and Emoji Linguistics
Well-researched stories from NPR, Public Books, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
T.S. Eliot
Remembering the famous modernist poet T.S. Eliot with his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
Dead Birds, Data Mining, and Dark Matter
Well-researched stories from Public Books, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
H.G. Wells’s Letters to Cora Crane
The correspondence between famous novelist H.G. Wells and Cora Crane, the partner of "The Red Badge of Courage" author Stephen Crane.
Upton Sinclair
Best known as the author of "The Jungle," Upton Sinclair had some thoughts about the American economy, which he shared in this 1906 essay.
Vaping Sickness, Modern Menopause, and Lab-Made Embryos
Well-researched stories from High Country News, Scientific American, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Climate Refugees, Child-Free Life, and Wellness at Work
Well-researched stories from The New Republic, PBS, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Forest Economies, Spy vs. Spy, and Nuking Hurricanes
Well-researched stories from Quanta, Wired, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Eleven Poems for Fall
Cozy up to autumn with verse from Dylan Thomas, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Rita Dove, and more.
The Dawn of WWII, According to the Chief of British Secret Intelligence
An original essay from 1939.
Amazon Fires, Hong Kong Money, and Dockless Scooters
Well-researched stories from Vice, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.