Kristen French
The Martyrs, Hunters, and Nature Lovers Who Came Together to Save Birds
An interview with James McCommons, author of The Feather Wars, about the past and future of bird conservation
The Internet Has Not Killed Reading—or Attention Spans
An interview with Kevin Ashton, MIT technology pioneer and author of The Story of Stories
Heat Probably Doesn’t Make You More Aggressive
An interview with a behavioral economist about cake, climate change, and cooperation
Did Music Give Rise to Language?
An interview with a music cognition researcher about the evolutionary roots of music
Why Haven’t We Heard from Extraterrestrials Yet?
A conversation with astronomer Vishal Gajjar about how to listen differently for non-human life in the cosmos
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
Why You’re More Likely to Develop AI-Psychosis than to Join a Cult
Philosopher Lucy Osler on the insidious appeal of AI Chatbots
The Cancer No One Can Explain
Colorectal cancer in young people has been rising for 30 years. We still don't know why—and that's killing people.
What Grief Has to Do with Love Addiction
People who have enmeshed attachments may be more vulnerable to prolonged grief
