Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed

Robert Macfarlane is one of the great nature writers of his generation, making him an unusual critic of the genre

The philosopher and the tsar. Leibniz courted Peter the Great for decades, seeking influence and ducats. It mostly resulted in frustration

How to Break America’s Great Scientific Stagnation

Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Colombian Coca, Seattle PayUp Law, Bomb Dogs (Vol. 21)

Taylor Lorenz: Is Social Media Responsible for Bad Parenting?

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Corrective for a Broken Heart

How Will Congress Fund a $300 Billion War With Iran?

Lessons From Singapore: The Virtues Of Vice

How to define a color. A seemingly simple task came to require scientific and industrial — as well as aesthetic — expertise

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

How To Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years

The Samuel Alito Nomination -- Twenty Years Later

Peter Matthiessen went to Paris to spy and write the Great American Novel. But he was, in his words, “always in the club drinking martinis”

Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists

An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

Scientists Grow Chickpeas in Lunar Soil

The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older

How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany

A question for astrobiologists: If space dolphins or celestial jellyfishes live somewhere beyond Alpha Centauri, great — but then what?

The Great American Condo Crisis