Kristen French
When “Extinct” Volcanoes Reawaken
They’re filled with a lot more fury than their millennia-long slumber would suggest
The Problem with Psychedelic Research
A conversation with a psychedelics researcher about a fundamental flaw in how we test these mind-bending drugs
The New Science of the Near-Death Experience
For the first time, scientists are studying these mysterious states in real time
Can the Brain Survive Cryonic Sleep?
Experiments with mouse tissue suggest memory and function may remain intact
The Bad Seed and the Problem of Blame
A conversation with behavioral geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden about the heritability of vice
The Costs of Feeling Lonely in a Crowd
An interview with a loneliness researcher about the varieties of social isolation
I Asked Claude Why It Won’t Stop Flattering Me
An interview with Anthropic’s chatbot about sycophantic AI and how to guard against it
Who Gets to Do Science?
An interview with a neuroscientist who spent the last decade tearing down the class, race, and language barriers that keep people like him out of research
The Doctors Who Say Spirituality Belongs in Medicine
Many patients with neurological disorders want spiritual care, but most clinicians are reluctant to offer it
