Ten thousand years ago, human evolution went into overdrive

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Vividness and the Limits of Reason

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America’s Insane Tax-Filing Process

How Trump’s Crypto Push Is Undermining American Power

Transparency Shattered Higher Ed—It Can Rebuild it, Too

The Great Hungarian Reset

Why Development Doesn’t Prevent War

FDR’s Hubris

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How Human Is Human?

The Ancient Cold Snaps That May Have Shaped Human Evolution

An idolatrous, consumerist faith in AI that has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning

Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation

Newly Discovered Prehistoric Crocodilian Had Legs That Went All the Way Up

Ancient People Traded Live Parrots Across South America for Thousands of Years

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How Charles Darwin Inherited His World-shifting Ideas on Evolution

What Happened to the Ancient Bug Giants of 300 Million Years Ago?

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