Kristen French
The Strange Rise of Daydreaming
Why people become addicted to fantasy lives.
When Bacteria Are Beautiful
Making art out of an invisible world that shapes human health and disease.
5 Myths About Love and Desire
Love languages aren’t a thing, and sex every day is probably overdoing it.
Why We Reject New Ideas
What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
Talk About the Passion
Scientists on the art that has inspired them. Artists on the science that has inspired them.
Pocket Forests Are Coming to Town
Can tiny forests deliver on big environmental problems?
The Unbelievable Untangling Worms
Solving nature’s greatest Gordian knot.
Bummer: Popular Happiness Strategies Are a Bust
A new analysis shows the most widely cited happiness studies relied on poor research methods.
How a Dream Engineer Defeats Nightmares
We can rewrite the script on bad dreams.
Requiem for the Foghorn
Across the US and around the world, foghorns have disappeared from the coastal landscape.