History
Is Discovery Inevitable or Serendipitous?
The role of chance and predictability in scientific breakthroughs.
The Perpetual Quest for a Truth Machine
Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.
The Force Was with Them
My generation of filmmakers shook up cinema forever. Where are history’s periodic surges of creativity taking us?
Magic Died When Art and Science Split
Renée Bergland’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.
The Smartphone of the Middle Ages
An accident of lighting uncovers Jewish, European, and Islamic origins.
Is Christianity Based on Psychedelic Trips?
A radical theory that pagan cults gave rise to early Christianity.
The Feminist Botanist
A 19th-century tale of hermaphrodite flowers, Charles Darwin, and women’s right to vote.
The Prizefighters
If you want to know what it takes to succeed in science, head to the Nobel Prize ceremony.
What a Bronze Age Skeleton Reveals About Cavities
Here’s a hint: He didn’t eat processed foods and sugar.
Archaeology at the Bottom of the Sea
David Gibbins on his 3 greatest revelations while writing A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks.
