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“You’ll Know Her by Her Foot”

An ornithologist reflects on Emily Dickinson’s “You'll know her by her foot.”

July 16, 2019

A Natural, Reviving Violence

A reflection on Marianne Moore’s “The Fish.”

July 10, 2019

The Mushroom’s Small Stature and Subtle Strength

A microbial ecologist reflects on Sylvia Plath’s “Mushrooms.”

June 24, 2019

Richard Dawkins on Poetry

The evolutionary biologist reads Robert Frost.

May 28, 2019

What Makes Music Special to Us?

Clarifying the differences between what animals and humans hear.

March 13, 2019

Gustav Klimt in the Brain Lab

What is neuroscience doing to art?

February 7, 2019

Echos

What happens when a person is simultaneously lost and found?

January 3, 2019

How Doctors Use Poetry

A Harvard medical student describes how he is learning to both treat and heal.

September 26, 2018

The Cost of Blood

When corporations run the government and any crime can be bought.

July 2, 2018