Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten? ~humanities.history Article 4402 words 14 votes
Going critical - an interactive essay demonstrating how things move and spread through networks ~science Link 4 votes
A revolution in time - Once local and irregular, time-keeping became universal and linear in 311 BCE ~humanities.history Article 2902 words 7 votes
Rejection kills: The brain makes no distinction between a broken bone and an aching heart. That’s why social exclusion needs a health warning ~health.mental Article 3615 words 5 votes
Neuroscience now points to rejection causing physical pain: how do we treat and address social exclusion? ~health.mental Article 3615 words 5 votes
When a child's mental health diagnosis comes too late to help ~health mental health Article 3253 words, published Apr 8 2019 15 votes
There's no good reason to trust blockchain technology ~tech security Article 2087 words, published Feb 6 2019 10 votes
Millennial life: How young adulthood today compares with prior generations ~life Article 2197 words 10 votes
Xenophon: The ancient Greek rebel leader who saw Socrates solo-dancing ~humanities.history Article 2867 words, published Jan 10 2019 3 votes
Bonfire of the humanities: The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism ~humanities.history Article 3967 words, published Oct 2 2014 13 votes
American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund ~humanities.history Article 168 words, published Jun 5 2017 10 votes
A personal library too big to get through in a lifetime “isn’t a sign of failure or ignorance,” but rather “a badge of honor.” ~books libraries Article 1043 words, published Oct 8 2018 11 votes
The say of the land. Is language produced by the mind? Romantic theory has it otherwise: words emerge from the cosmos, expressing its soul ~humanities language Article 3371 words, published Sep 25 2018 4 votes
Intelligent, devoted, alien – parrots are unlike any other pet. But what does the complex human-avian bond say about us? ~life.pets Article 3091 words, published Feb 5 2013 9 votes
The big squeeze: Sicily’s mafia sprang from the growing global market for lemons – a tale with sour parallels for consumers today ~humanities.history Article 2173 words, published Sep 5 2018 8 votes
Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell on why we need libraries – an essay in pictures ~books libraries Article 9 votes
"The Social Ideology of the Motorcar" by André Gorz, 1973 ~transport Article 3652 words, published Aug 11 2018 4 votes
Growing-ups: Living with your parents, single and with no clear career. Is this a failure to grow up or a whole new stage of life? ~life Article 3960 words, published Apr 17 2014 29 votes
Perversions: Atheists and homosexuals were called perverts once. Why do we still see perversion where no harm is done? ~lgbt Article 2850 words, published Sep 25 2013 6 votes
Chronic - For big pharma, the perfect patient is wealthy, permanently ill and a daily pill-popper. Will medicine ever recover? ~health medicine Article 2953 words 6 votes
Beauteous beasts - Humans have been breeding animals for beauty for centuries. But should we draw the line at genetically modified pets? ~science Article 4306 words, published Mar 25 2013 4 votes
Speaking on behalf of … In the tapestry of diverse social groups, the loudest and most extreme get heard. To whom should we actually listen? ~humanities philosophy.political Article 3023 words, published Jul 11 2018 5 votes
Voltaire and the Buddha: How the French Enlightenment thinker prefigured an approach now familiar in the West ~humanities.history Article 1685 words 5 votes
Going nowhere fast: After the success of the Standard Model, experiments have stopped answering to grand theories. Is particle physics in crisis? ~science physics.particle Article 2896 words 3 votes
Workers of the world unite on distributed platforms: The distributed network has gobbled the hierarchical firm. Only by seizing the platform can workers avoid digital serfdom ~tech Article 2267 words, published May 28 2018 3 votes
What can Aristotle teach us about happiness? ~humanities philosophy ethics Article 3757 words 6 votes
Black Achilles - The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether? ~humanities.history Article 3357 words 5 votes