World’s once-largest penguin colony is in perilous decline

Penguin Poop is Melting Antarctic Snow

Was this odd animal the world’s first milk suckler?

The 'World's Oldest' Bartender's Very Illegal Basement Bar

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Why Students for Justice in Palestine is Celebrating October 7

Are single-mindedness and arrogance what’s required to write great fiction? Consider the case of Cormac McCarthy

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Why Forgive and Forget is Bad Advice

Artist Tracey Emin: I’m Doing What I Think Is Right

Turning the tide on Massachusetts shellfishing data

How Art Invented Humanity

Almost three-quarters of England is now in drought conditions

What History Tells Us About the AI Debate

Colombia's New President Wants More U.S. Military Help Fighting Cartels

Self-help and life hacks treat existence as a puzzle to be solved. The ancients had a name for that: heresy

Habermas believed the gap between expert and layperson could always, in principle, be closed by the right chain of translation

A poem you can put your beer on. The mimeo revolution of the 1960s generated a deluge of experimental printing

Dostoyevsky on What Makes a Good Person

How to Lose a Trade War

US SENDING THIRD AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND 10,000 MORE TROOPS TO GULF—WHAT IS THE RISK OF A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE BY IRAN?