Arts
Film Contest Gives Young Environmental Activists a Voice
Middle schoolers Annabelle VanderMarck and Piper Lasater won the Nautilus Science Prize in the Redford Center Stories film contest.
Literature Should Be Taught Like Science
This renegade professor says literature is a machine that accelerates the human brain.
Why Computers Will Never Write Good Novels
The power of narrative flows only from the human brain.
What Merpeople Say About Us
How changing perceptions of mermaids and mermen reveal deeper understandings of myth, religion, science, wonder and capitalism.
3-D Printed Statues in Central Park Shine a Light on Women Scientists
The pop-up sampling is part of a larger exhibit of 120 depictions of women scientists.
Only Disconnect! A Pandemic Reading of E.M. Forster
The astonishing relevance of the British writer’s story, “The Machine Stops.”