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The Man Who Used Facebook to Find an Extinct Human Species

Lee Berger has a knack for finding fossils his own way.

November 12, 2015

Through Fortitude or Stupidity, Lee Berger Is Rewriting Human History

The paleoanthropologist makes no apologies for going his own way.

November 12, 2015

Identity Is an Inside Joke

Why you laugh with your friends.

November 12, 2015

How I Tried to Transplant the Musical Heart of Apocalypse Now

Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch describes the surprising idiosyncrasies of film scoring.

November 10, 2015

Drums, Lies, and Audiotape

When I was invited to drum in Ghana, I gladly accepted. Then something went wrong.

November 4, 2015

The Science Hidden In Your Town Name

How place names encode ecological change.

November 2, 2015

The Strange Persistence of First Languages

After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.

November 2, 2015

Why Virtual Classes Can Be Better Than Real Ones

An engineering professor takes online-course critics to school.

October 23, 2015

Why the Russians Decapitated Major Tom

The story of the genetically engineered mouse cosmonaut.

October 5, 2015