The Ocean and the Meaning of Life

Professor Emeritus Chiang Chung Mei, pioneering scholar of ocean wave dynamics and fluid mechanics, dies at 91

How to Read the Signal of Your Life

“My wonderful horseykins,” “my little sperm whale.” If Chekhov’s love life was epistolary, what are we to make of his fondness for brothels?

The Measure of a Life Well Lived: Henry Miller on How to Grow Old and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart

Rising US life expectancy isn’t what it seems

Originalism’s Better Meaning

Why San Francisco Voters Are Optimistic

How Vipers Got Their Venom

Great Story—But Is It True?

William Faulkner – Troubled Literary Genius

The Wisdom of Water: Alan Watts on the Ocean and the Meaning of Life

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Is Life Fundamentally Computational?

Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life

Editing was largely absent from British publishing until midcentury, emerging only as firms grew too big to take risks on new writers

Yu Deng ’11 and Hong Wang PhD ’19 awarded Fields Medal

Denisovans towered over their contemporaries and munched a bunch of meat

Terry Eagleton: “Few acts of self-sacrifice can compare with sitting through Oxford High Table stone-cold sober for more than three decades”

<em>Science</em> investigation casts doubt on genes hailed for warding off Alzheimer’s disease