Inspiration

8 articles

Zoology

The Wild World of Threats

Animals, including us, evolved to bluster and bluff at their peril.
- By David P. Barash
- January 19, 2022
Psychology

My Out-of-Body Experience

In a sensory deprivation tank, I lost my body and found myself.
- By Joel Frohlich
- January 19, 2022
Genetics

Plants Fight for Their Lives

As arable land disappears, a genetic tweak might secure the world’s food supply.
- By Sara Goudarzi
- January 19, 2022
Technology

The Worrisome Rise of NFTs

An astrobiologist says non-fungible tokens do not bode well for our species’s future.
- By Caleb Scharf
- January 12, 2022
Sociology

The Attack of Zombie Science

They look like scientific papers. But they’re distorting and killing science.
- By Natalia Pasternak, Carlos Orsi, Aaron F. Mertz, & Stuart Firestein & others
- January 12, 2022
Evolution

E.O. Wilson Saw the World in a Wholly New Way

“Did you like the grenade I tossed in their midst?” the biologist asked me.
- By David Sloan Wilson
- January 5, 2022