Kristen French
What Doomsday Prophecies Say About Us
An interview with medieval studies scholar and apocalypse expert Matthew Gabriele
Inside the Brains of Monks Who Have Meditated for 15,000 Hours
They may offer new clues to the mystery of consciousness
Were You Born to Love Music?
How you respond to art—from poetry, to visual art, to music—may be partly written in your DNA
The World’s Tiniest Wave Tank
This ocean on a chip unlocks the mysteries of rogue waves, tsunamis, and other aquatic oddities
This Inca Building was the Original Boom Box
A 600-year-old temple was likely designed to amplify drum beats and music
How Scavenging Made Us Human
Our early ancestors were more like vultures than we might like to think
Daydream Your Way to Life-Changing Insights
Certain kinds of mind wandering can lead to powerful epiphanies
Extraterrestrials are People, Too
Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them?
Rogue Wave Mystery Solved
Each leviathan of the deep has a signature that can be used to forecast it
