Is Gossip Just for Girls? (Vox)
by Alex Abad-Santos
There’s a stereotype that men don’t gossip. It’s not really true, but, as a general rule, they could do it better than they do now. And that might help solve the male loneliness epidemic.

A Rock’s Tale (Noema)
by Marcia Bjornerud
Every kind of stone has a story. Garnets tell particularly interesting ones—of human travels around the world and of much older transformations that helped to shape that world to begin with.

The Cosmopolitan World of an Indian Writer (Literary Hub)
by Radha Vatsal
The first novel written in Gujarati, in 1863, offers a window into the mind of its author and his contemporaries—and the strikingly open-minded way they navigated a landscape of repeated colonial intrusions.

Seasons of Life (Sapiens)
by Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias
The joys of summer vacations aside, most people in industrialized, capitalist societies live in about the same way all year long. But many other people, historically and today, changed their whole lives—their homes, daily routines, political structures, and even names—depending on the season.

Face to Face with a Denisovan (Ars Technica)
by Kiona N. Smith
A 146,000-year-old skull, once believed to belong to a hominin species known as Dragon Man, turns out to be our first chance to find out what the mysterious people known as Denisovans, who shared the earth with Neanderthals and humans like us, may have looked like.

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