Oh, And If You’re Wondering...

... What to get that special someone for Christmas...

Na Roa, Katoa.

Ka kite koe i nga marama e toru.

Catch You on the Flip Side

Heading home to write 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙤𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧 𝙎𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙖.

The Deep Time of Walden Pond

The science and history of the lake Thoreau made famous.

Picked the Wrong Guy

Oxford University research raises questions about skills of wine tasters.

Fake News

Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time.

Science

An Alarming Discovery in an Astronaut’s Bloodstream

A study has turned up a side effect of human spaceflight that no one had observed before.

Is the Bubonic Plague Making a Comeback?

Why, yes. In more ways than you think...

I Bought an Elephant

To find out how to save them.

On Serendipity

A decades-long conversation between friends about books, photography and life, exploring what it is to know, to look, to see.

Explore the list of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World

This list.

The Rainforest Is Teeming with Consciousness

Our fate turns on retiring our dualist view of nature.

How to Be an Epicurean

A philosophy that values innocent pleasure, human warmth and the rewards of creative endeavour. What’s not to like?

Liberalism According to The Economist

Founded in 1843 to spread the doctrine of laissez-faire, the magazine has wielded influence like no other. But at what cost?

Inventing a God

Why was it believed that the Aztecs greeted Cortés as a deity?

Bad Infinity

The endurance of the liberal imagination.

Matsutake Madness Today

The Happiness Ruse

How did feeling good become a matter of relentless, competitive work; a never-to-be-attained goal which makes us miserable?

Who Gave You the Right to Tell That Story?

Ten authors on the most divisive question in fiction, and the times they wrote outside their own identities.

The Slowness of Literature

 and the shadow of knowledge.

Ode to Skimming

Daisy Hildyard on reading and our attention spans.

How to Choose a Writing Instrument

 and what it says about you.

J.S. Bach the Rebel

The subversive practice of a canonical composer.

... Took Me To These.

Today This Path...

The Transformation of Condé Nast

How a media mogul defined class and invented the modern magazine.

A History of Chop Suey

A dish which arrived with the Gold Rush, spread with the railway and endured prohibition was Chinese by origin, but claimed by America.

The Harrowing Hours and Defiant Aftermath...

 ... of the New Zealand mosque shootings.

I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s

The Labeled Release experiment on the Viking mission reported positive results, although most have dismissed them as inorganic chemical reactions.

50 of the World's Best Bread

Not for paleoholics.

Saharan Desert Ants

 Gallop at a blistering 108 body lengths per second.

Understanding the Anthropocene Extinction, Regenerating Cartilage and More...

Autism and touch, a prosthetic that feels and where’s my Lyme vaccine?

Bruce Chatwin Was the Internet Before the Internet Existed

The legacy of the late British writer and journalist shows us how the internet could be — a place where reality is not distorted but enriched by its users.

Now

I’m a historian...

Another Successful Harvest at Domaine Renegade

The Casebook of Dr Sababa full Audio By Lawrence Winkler

Gone For a Week...

To Arkansas

Fascinated to Presume

 In defence of fiction.

Books Won’t Die

No, they won’t.

Flash From the Past

Me singing ‘Space Colonization Blues’ in the background...

Harvest Day!

Mathematics as a Cultural Force

Historian Amir Alexander on Euclidean geometry’s far-reaching effects.

For Rachel Carson

Wonder was a radical state of mind.

We Need to Hear the Phrase “I don’t know”

Much more in a world of instant online opinions.

Harvest Day Tomorrow

Should Be Pretty Good Tomorrow Too

Great Day Today

Fishermen Land Piranhas in Nanaimo’s Westwood Lake

Now isn’t that special.

Not Your Tibetan Buddhism

Behind the beatific image of Tibetan Buddhism lies a dark, complicated reality. But is it one the Western gaze wants to see?

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

For six years they managed to elude the most powerful detectives on the planet and outrun their past across the wilds of South America.

How Cities Reshape the Evolutionary Path of Urban Wildlife

If researchers can figure out how pigeons and rats evolve to thrive in hostile city habitats, it could help other beasts—including us—adapt to climate change.

The Well-educated Person

If we took Aristotle seriously we would revolutionize our educational systems to enable citizens to learn throughout life.

A Sage on the Ward

Good nurses are attuned to the lived experience of patients. Can the theory of phenomenology add more to their practice?