Kristen French
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
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
