Durham University

Defends student sex work training.

High White Notes

The rise and fall of Gonzo journalism.

A Day In a Victoria ICU

‘Thirty-, 40- and 50-year-olds shouldn’t be dying at this level.’

 

Is This Land Made for You and Me?

How African Americans came to Indian Territory after the Civil War.

Just Been Days

Read a commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut.

Who Goes Crypto?

In the era of financial precarity, betting on meme stocks to save for retirement might not be moral, but it’s certainly rational.

The CBC Is A Joke

And Canadians are laughing at them.

Organized Crime 'Knowingly and Actively'

Exploited federal pandemic benefits.

Scottish Government 'To Put Tampons And Sanitary Towels In Male Toilets

In case they are needed by transgender civil servants.

Antony Blinken Says US Companies Don't Have

‘Good faith’ reasons to condemn Communist China.

A Star Is Born

The history of the asterisk.

The Ascendant Steppe

A brisk tour of the early history of Central Asia.

Protecting Some Old Growth Isn’t Enough. BC Needs a Forest Revolution

Governments have mismanaged the sector for decades. 

Shame on MIT

For bowing to a Twitter mob.

Old Dominion University Criminal Justice Professor

Defends pedophilia.

Paralyzed Mice Walk Again

Within four weeks following breakthrough treatment to rebuild spinal fluid cells.

A Pacific Gold Rush

On the routes miners traveled to reach gold in the United States and Australia.

Nothing but Sheer Racket

On the music and mind of Franz Liszt.

Yale

Now has more administrators than faculty.

Video Shows Taliban Using Remnants Of Bamiyan Buddhas For Target Practice

Assholes.

“Not My Lane”

John Kerry asked about slave labor In China.

This Wasn’t a Political Protest – It Was Shameful Mob Behaviour

The hounding of Tzipi Hotovely confirmed how prejudiced anti-Israel sentiment has become.

Because Higher Ed Is Broken

I’m helping to start a new college.

 

Journals of Plague Years

On the British doctors who became colonial disease detectives in the nineteenth century.

A Vast Latrine for Dogs

A brief history of trying to save city streets from pet waste.

Why Philosophy Needs Myth

Some see Plato as a pure rationalist, others as a fantastical mythmaker. His deft use of stories tells a more complex tale.

Using ‘Wrong’ Pronouns Violates ‘Nondiscrimination Policy’ at Columbia

But claims it’s not a fireable offense.

Flying Solo

Parthenogenesis discovered in California condors.

Nancy Pelosi, AOC Demonize Fossil Fuels in Glasgow

As Kamala Harris met by a 20-car motorcade in Paris.

The Gradual Discovery of Glasses

Considering the prehistory of spectacles.

As Far from Heaven as Possible

How Henry Wadsworth Longfellow interpreted Reconstruction by translating Dante.

The Elites Are Laughing In Our Faces

COP26 promises to be a grotesque spectacle of decadence and hypocrisy.

At Jezero Crater, Mars

Perseverance rover reveals an ancient delta-lake system and flood deposits.

AI Generates Hypotheses Human Scientists Have Not Thought Of

Machine-learning algorithms can guide humans toward new experiments and theories.

Trillions of Bacteria Are Screaming with Light

Great writers waxed poetic over ‘milky seas.’ Here’s the science behind the glow.

How the Coronavirus Stays One Step Ahead of Us

As long as there are vulnerable populations, a virus will evolve. That’s nature.

The Butcher

Of Havana.

Thoreau’s Economics

The truly precious costs precious little.

How 12th-Century Genoese Merchants

Invented the idea of risk.

How To Maintain a Healthy Brain

Sharpen your mind today but also reduce your risk of dementia later on.

How To Have More Meaningful Conversations

Be brave enough to share, kind enough to listen, and you can escape the shallows of small talk to dive deep with another.

Not Belonging to the World

Hannah Arendt holds firm during the McCarthy era.

The Emancipated Empire

The British Empire was first built on slavery and then on the moral and economic self-confidence of antislavery.

All the World’s a Painting

The age of the panorama.

The Posthuman Dog

If humans were to disappear from the face of the Earth, what might dogs become? 

Is Goodness Natural?

Philippa Foot was one of a group of brilliant women philosophers who swam against the tide of 20th-century moral thought.

Leonard Cohen Was Enslaved By Eros

He elevated sex to the sublime life force of creation.

US Navy Launches Ship

Named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk.

Ambushing Geronimo

An introduction to salvage anthropology.

Want To Be a Philosopher?

Try farming.