Geek Love: Our Modern Monster Story
The writer Katherine Dunn died last week at age 70. Anyone who ever felt like an outsider found a friend in her 1989 novel Geek Love.
A Telephone Conversation with Malcolm X
This 1965 telephone conversation between Malcolm X and meeting organizers in Paris took place just weeks before his assassination.
Alexander The Great… Globalist?
Globalization is the watchword of our time, but maybe Alexander The Great was the first global citizen.
A New Use For Soy
When it comes to the relationship between people and soy—a replacement for animal proteins derived from soybeans—well, it's complicated.
Suggested Readings: Clever Fish, Clever Babies, Not-So-Clever University Policies
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Can Game Theory Help Save Our Forests?
How forests and endangered species might be saved by artificial intelligence and game theory.
Our Oceans Are Suffocating
The oceans can’t catch a break. To rising temperatures and acidification caused by rising CO2 emissions, add oxygen deprivation .
Netflix and Chill
"Netflix and chill" is just the latest trend in 100+ years of changing courtship rituals.
The Mystery Man in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Life
Gilbert Imlay already had a bad reputation before his biographer discovered he was a slave trader.
“What a lark! What a plunge!”: Celebrating Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway was published on May 14, 1925. We look at the book 90+ years on.