Interview Will AI Become Conscious? A Conversation with Susan Schneider November 04, 2019 Consciousness is the felt quality of experience. When you see a wave cresting on a beach, smell the aroma of freshly baked bread, or feel the pain of stubbing your toe, you are having conscious experience. Read More
Interview David Richeson on Tales of Impossibility November 03, 2019 Tales of Impossibility聽recounts the intriguing story of the so-called 鈥榩roblems of antiquity,鈥� four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics. Read More
Interview Sonia Contera on Nano Comes to Life November 01, 2019 Nano Comes to Life聽opens a window onto the nanoscale鈥攖he infinitesimal realm of proteins and聽DNA聽where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet鈥攁nd introduces readers to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies that are allowing us to manipulate the very building blocks of life. Read More
Interview First time author spotlight: James Lindley Wilson on Democratic Equality October 22, 2019 Democracy establishes relationships of political equality, ones in which citizens equally share authority over what they do together and respect one another as equals. Read More
Essay A Website Story About Story October 16, 2019 In every book there is a story. For 91桃色, those stories might be about the magic of mushrooms, or the global struggle for human rights, or a narrative about narrative economics. Read More
Essay In Dialogue with Susan Mattern and Richard Bribiescas: Reframing how we think about aging October 09, 2019 Are we looking at male/female aging all wrong? Susan Mattern and Richard Bribiescas discuss. Read More
Interview Ryan Patrick Hanley on Adam Smith October 08, 2019 Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an uncommonly brilliant philosopher who was especially interested in the perennial question of how to live a good life.聽 Read More
Interview Philipp Ther on The Outsiders October 03, 2019 Philipp Ther provides needed perspective on today鈥檚 鈥渞efugee crisis,鈥� demonstrating how Europe has taken in far greater numbers of refugees in earlier periods of its history, in wartime as well as peacetime. Read More
Interview Michael Schmidt on Gilgamesh October 02, 2019 Poetry Day in the UK is October 3, the perfect time to revisit a lost poem鈥攁nd its rediscovery by contemporary poets. Gilgamesh聽is the most ancient long poem known to exist. Read More
Interview Susan Mattern on The Slow Moon Climbs October 01, 2019 Are the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Historian Susan Mattern says yes, and聽The Slow Moon Climbs聽reveals just how wrong we have been. Read More
Interview Jennifer C. Lena on Entitled September 30, 2019 Two centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture鈥攎useums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras鈥攖o mirror European art. But today鈥檚 American arts scene has widened to embrace multitudes. Read More
Essay Eric D. Weitz on Human Rights Advances September 23, 2019 History is full of human rights tragedies and abuses, and it can be difficult to feel hopeful about the current state of affairs with those atrocities in mind. But there are success stories as well. Here, Eric Weitz shares a few exceptional human rights advances in recent history. Read More
Essay Searching for Spirit in Science Publishing September 19, 2019 Not long ago, I read an article in Scientific American about the power of words and how language shapes the brain. The article, written by a young Japanese postdoc in neuroscience, begins by invoking the Japanese word, kotodama, which can be translated to mean, literally, 鈥渨ord spirit.鈥� Read More
Interview Eleanor Wilner on Before Our Eyes September 18, 2019 A poet who engages with history in lyrical language, Elenor Wilner creates worlds that reflect on and illuminate the actual one, drawing on the power of communal myth and memory to transform them into agents of change. Read More
Interview Jennifer M. Morton on Moving Up Without Losing Your Way September 17, 2019 鈥嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�嬧�婾pward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. Read More
