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Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Polarized Crowds

A lesson in how to break out of filter bubbles.

March 13, 2019

The Well-Meaning Bad Ideas Spoiling a Generation

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt on politics, morality, and the coddling of the American mind.

March 6, 2019

How Imagination Will Save Our Cities

Scientists might need to take a cue from artists to adapt our cities for climate change.

March 6, 2019

Watch and See: The Medium Really Is the Message

How communication technologies shaped the arts and sciences.

February 20, 2019

Why Misinformation Is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think

Two philosophers of science diagnose our age of fake news.

Gustav Klimt in the Brain Lab

What is neuroscience doing to art?

February 7, 2019

How We’ll Forget John Lennon

Our culture has two types of forgetting.

January 9, 2019

Echos

What happens when a person is simultaneously lost and found?

January 3, 2019

Why We Love Dinosaurs

If museums of natural history are temples to science, dinosaurs are their shrines.

December 14, 2018

Holding Hands with a Chimp

How my suburban-hewn world-view was flipped on its head.

December 12, 2018