Is Our Soap Hurting Us?
Julia Scott, a writer and radio producer in San Francisco, was recently a test subject for a living ...
The Road to Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century hit the number one spot on the New York Times nonfiction ...
A Tobacco Plant that Could Cure Cancer?
Finding anti-cancer agents inside tobacco may seem like a pretty strange coincidence, but it’s not unheard of to find help in harmful places.
Green Burial and the North-South Divide
Embalming practices were first introduced in the US during the Civil War to preserve bodies for transportation.
The Origins of Bastille Day
Bastille Day as we know it began as private educational events phased into lively street fetês, and eventually the parades and fireworks we know today.
Sixteen-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Sperm Discovered in Australia
Digging in Queensland, Australia, scientists recently discovered the fossilized remains of a small crustacean known as a seed ...
The Lotus Magazine
First published in 1910 by the Author’s Bureau, The Lotus Magazine covers art history, composition, and individual pieces ...
Interview with Godzilla
The awesome destructive power of the beast is widely understood to be a metaphor for nuclear weapons. Is this too facile an idea?