Subjectivity and Its Discontents

On Bullshit.

Frederick Banting's Painting of the Lab Where He Discovered Insulin Part of Auction Preview

Estimated value of some pieces close to $1M.

Rare Microbes Lead Scientists to Discover New Branch on the Tree of Life

Hemimastigotes are more different from all other living things than animals are from fungi.

Rhiannon Adam’s Revealing Portrait of Pitcairn Island

Heading here in January.

The Hunt for Human Nature

We still live in the long shadow of Man-the-Hunter: a midcentury theory of human origins soaked in strife and violence.

The World’s Largest Hot Sauce Collection Might Be in an Arizona Living Room

8,600 bottles and counting.

How the Tuberculosis Epidemic Influenced Modernist Architecture

Light, air, and hygiene were the best treatment for tuberculosis at the time.

Pretentious, Impenetrable, Hard Work ... Better?

Why we need difficult books.

The Concrete Jungle

Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

Wide and Starry Sky

How Robert Louis Stevenson came to live, die, and be buried in Samoa.