The Reading Method That Left Many Kids Behind

Why Does the United States Have So Many Tornadoes?

The Science Behind the Perfect 3-Point Shot

Scientists discover genetics behind leaky brain blood vessels in Rett syndrome

How Chile's Free Market Miracle Survived a Resurgent Left

Who's Being Pornographic Here? (And Were Pornography Allegations Related to School Library Book Reading Defamatory?)

Thursday Poem

Blood cancer has not abated the verbose, sardonic, and unpredictable Will Self’s rage with the literary world

The Next Cuban Revolution Could Be Peaceful

Casting Off in Heraclitus’ River

You Can Still Improve as You Age—With the Right Mindset

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece

The World Has Turned and Left Me Here

Tolkien’s reading of Beowulf, and his ability to blend the epic with the novel, fiction and scholarship, shaped his sense of story 

“Anguish,” “agony,” “ache,” “affliction” — why are there so many words for pain? Darcey Steinke unpacks the meaning of suffering

Christmas Creep Has Left Us Confused

Why do so many authors and critics remain attached to “literary fiction” in our commercialized landscape of books?

Chip-processing method could assist cryptography schemes to keep data secure

This Oregon Bill Would Hide Data About Gender Procedures for Kids

New study unveils the mechanism behind “boomerang” earthquakes

Dying Mothers, the Birth of Handwashing, and the Bittersweet True Love Story Behind ‘Frankenstein’