Climate Change, Fungal Change
Climate change is having an effect on the fungal communities in the soil that trees and other plants depend on.
Suggested Readings: Changing Minds, Living Longer, Not Retweeting
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
Beverly Cleary, Age 100
American author Beverly Cleary turns 100 this week. Explore her world and legacy through classic characters like Henry Higgins and Beezus and Ramona Quimby.
Anthropomorphism’s Pros and Cons
Humans see our own expressions everywhere, especially on dolphins and domesticated pets.
How Harvard Became Harvard
Older than the nation, Harvard has always been elite, but it was only in the 19th Century that it became the school of the Boston ruling class.
Meet the Secretary Bird, Snake Nemesis
If snakes have nightmares, they most likely include secretary birds (or secretarybirds)—so-called because the birds’ crests, when flattened against the head, ...
Ossian, Rude Bard of the North
Ossian once rivaled Homer in the Western literary canon. Whatever happened to him?
Politics on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
A new collection of letters sheds light on the fraught relationship between Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter.
DNA Law and Order: Logging Edition
Illegal logging is pervasive across the globe, occurring anywhere there are exploitable forests. The resulting timber is illicitly traded and ...
A Short Primer on the Panama Papers
The so-called “Panama Papers” files released last weekend detail wide-spread tax-evasion among the world’s elites. From Russia to Iceland, ...