Cities Show How Climate Action Makes Life Better

Is there life after death? The psychiatrist Ian Stevenson spent his life collecting evidence. What he found was suggestive, but unprovable

Diatoms and the Meaning of Life

Retraction questions claim that cancer therapy works better in morning

William T. Vollmann’s Four-Volume Spook Show

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

Kinkajous commute. Dusky farmerfish grow crops. Octopuses build cities. Cathedral termites build taller, relatively, than any human skyscraper

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable but it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself

The memories of others

Open Thread

Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America's Problem

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

Review: The Short Life of a Formerly Enslaved Poet

A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys

Life Is a Story That Begins in the Middle: Bayo Akomolafe on the Rewilding Power of Obstacles

Insomnia and the Secret Life of Ideas: Kafka on the Relationship Between Sleeplessness and Creativity

Cell transplant across the tree of life hints at how animals emerged

Expanding and deepening climate reporting through local messengers

A historian makes the case that a meeting of minds in 1726 changed the course of English literature

Supreme Court Makes It Clear There Is No Drug Exception to the Second Amendment

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism