Coincidences in My Life Have Me Wondering

Cities Show How Climate Action Makes Life Better

Diatoms and the Meaning of Life

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

The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny: Some Notes on Wearables

Today in Supreme Court History: June 24, 2013

How can we improve forensics as a science?

The Anti-Fascist Fabulist

Mamdani’s Selective Socialism

People Make the World Go Round

Listening for the echoes of black holes

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

Review: The Short Life of a Formerly Enslaved Poet

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

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

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

When the blogosphere gave way to Substack, writers gained audiences but lost each other. Noah Smith explains

Dinosaurs, crocodilo-pythons, and other monsters populated the “lost world” novels that thrived between the 1880s and 1920s

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