Since Walt Whitman, the American sentence has shape-shifted in and out of forms, from race-car lyrical lines that drive off…
For thirty years, China has been building step by step toward a tipping point in the global balance of power.  A…
We’re celebrating peak fall with this interactive choose-your-own-journey which will let you decide where the story goes, with book recommendations…
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In Myriam Gurba’s latest essay collection Creep, the Mexican American author interrogates both those who deceive, exploit, and oppress others…
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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features two pioneers in their fields. Margaret Gardel is a biophysicist who…
I met Bella Swan in the middle of 2008, when the anticipatory Twilight movie poster circulated at my school. I…
Recreational drug use has been prevalent in societies for centuries, and it continues to be a topic of interest and…
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Justin Torres’ much-awaited follow-up to We The Animals, Blackouts is a meandering conversation between an unnamed young queer narrator and…
Militant extremist Islam is showing its carefully hidden Nazism. Just before the Hamas attack that killed 1,400 Israelis and started…
I don’t remember exactly when I first heard it but it was in high school sometime in the early nineties.…
How it works: the noninvasive imaging technique combines acoustic radiation force and optical coherence tomography to produce 3D elastic wave…
Author Elissa Bassist is obsessed with the patriarchy. She once texted me, “BENNY needs to go pee, and I need…
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Michael Riordan argues that if the US had followed a more conservative strategy when building the Superconducting Super Collider, the…