The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America ~humanities Article 5662 words 6 votes
Ozark life - A photo essay of the intimate beauty of daily life in rural Arkansas ~life Article 420 words 6 votes
Essays, photos, and discussion about prairie ecology, restoration, and management ~enviro Link 3 votes
In pictures: Grounded aircraft around the world ~transport Article 506 words, published Mar 1 2020 6 votes
Photographer Maria Lax comes from a northern Finnish town where UFO sightings were common – so she set about looking for answers ~arts photography Article 34 words 5 votes
Knitting’s tangled history: From aristocrats to punks, the humble yarn has spun its way through centuries of social change ~arts Article 754 words, published Jan 16 2020 3 votes
"Theire Soe Admirable Herbe": How the English Found Cannabis ~health Article 208 words, published Feb 20 2020 5 votes
The golden quarter—Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled? ~science Article 3277 words, published Dec 3 2014 12 votes
Modesty means more, not less ~humanities philosophy Article 3003 words, published Dec 11 2019 9 votes
War by other means: Syria’s economic struggle ~finance economics Article 6068 words, published Oct 1 2019 4 votes
On the line between truth and fiction when writing about your family ~books Article 1446 words 8 votes
How did Washington, DC fans experience the World Series in 1924, 1925 & 1933? Check out these photos. ~sports.baseball Article 326 words 3 votes
Where theory meets chalk, dust flies - A photo survey of the blackboards of mathematicians ~science mathematics Article 6 votes
English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language. ~humanities language linguistics Article 3327 words, published Nov 13 2015 12 votes
Norway Sámi community fights for survival as temperatures rise ~enviro climate change Article 426 words 6 votes
Flawed algorithms are grading millions of students’ essays ~tech Article 2130 words, published Aug 20 2019 13 votes
The dreams of an inventor in 1420 ~humanities.history Article 1475 words, published Jan 24 2018 5 votes
On this day in 1791, the only successful slave uprising in history began ~humanities.history Article 3629 words 13 votes
Broken sleep: People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through? ~life Article 2364 words, published Nov 7 2014 22 votes
Spot the psychopath: Psychopaths have a reputation for cunning and ruthlessness. But they are more like you and me than we care to admit ~health.mental Article 2902 words 6 votes
Brainwave helmets and algorithmic copilots: A Black Mirror episode or just modern performance assessment? ~science psychology Article 1716 words 3 votes
The tyranny of lawns and landlords: Renting culture puts dreams of cultivating wildness out of reach ~life housing Article 850 words, published Jul 12 2019 16 votes
Tainted by association: Would you carve a roast with a knife that had been used in a murder? Why not? And what does this tell us about ethics? ~humanities philosophy ethics Article 3287 words, published Jul 22 2019 17 votes
Marxism and Buddhism: Life is suffering, whether you sit under a Bodhi Tree or stand with the workers. But do the two schools agree on the remedy? ~humanities religion Article 3223 words, published Jul 17 2019 12 votes
Eating someone: Farmed animals have personalities, smarts, even a sense of agency. Why then do we saddle them with lives of utter despair? ~food Article 2954 words, published May 8 2019 28 votes
The Jewish case for open borders ~humanities religion Article 2987 words, published Jul 15 2019 11 votes
Absolute English - Science once communicated in a polyglot of tongues, but now English rules alone. How did this happen – and at what cost? ~science Article 2689 words, published Feb 4 2015 6 votes
Before the shaking starts: Living in the shadow of Utah’s next big earthquake ~life Article 7194 words 6 votes
The African Anthropocene: The Anthropocene feels different depending on where you are – too often, the ‘we’ of the world is white and Western. ~enviro climate change pollution Article 3212 words, published Feb 6 2018 10 votes
American bull - The story of American beef is like the story of the nation as a whole: a mashup of history and myth, bloody and contested ~food history meat Article 3623 words 6 votes
Of vices and rears; or why I've stopped reading Jane Austen ~books Article 2619 words, published May 27 2019 9 votes