Interview David Hu on How to Walk on Water and Climb Up Walls November 12, 2018 Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? Read More
Interview Edward Burger on Making Up Your Own Mind November 09, 2018 We solve countless problems鈥攂ig and small鈥攅very day. With so much practice, why do we often have trouble making simple decisions鈥攎uch less arriving at optimal solutions to important questions? Read More
Interview William R. Newman on Newton the Alchemist November 07, 2018 When Isaac Newton鈥檚 alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby鈥檚 auction in 1936, the quantity and seeming incoherence of the manuscripts were shocking. Read More
Interview Rebecca Bedell on Moved to Tears October 05, 2018 In her new book聽Moved to Tears, Rebecca Bedell overturns received ideas about sentimental art, arguing that major American artists鈥攆rom John Trumbull and Charles Willson Peale in the eighteenth century and Asher Durand and Winslow Homer in the nineteenth to Henry Ossawa Tanner and Frank Lloyd Wright in the early twentieth鈥攑roduced what was understood in their time as sentimental art. Read More
Interview Martin Rees on On the Future October 01, 2018 Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various prospects for the future鈥攇ood and bad鈥攁re possible. Read More
Interview Jack Wertheimer on The New American Judaism September 07, 2018 American Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. In The New American Judaism, Jack Wertheimer, a leading authority on the subject, sets out to discover how Jews of various orientations practice their religion in this radically altered landscape. Read More
Interview Marcia Bjornerud on Timefulness July 10, 2018 Our everyday lives are shaped by processes that vastly predate us, and our habits will in turn have consequences that will outlast us by generations. Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth鈥檚 deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future. Read More
Interview Marcin Wodzi艅ski on Historical Atlas of Hasidism July 10, 2018 Historical Atlas of Hasidism is the very first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era's most vibrant and important mystical movements. Read More
Essay Matthew Salganik: The Open Review of Bit by Bit, Part 1鈥擝etter books April 18, 2018 My new book Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age is for social scientists who want to do more data science, data scientists who want to do more social science, and anyone interesting in the combination of these two fields. Read More
Interview Eviatar Zerubavel on Taken for Granted February 24, 2018 Why is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working mom," and "white trash?" Read More
Essay What South Korea can learn from Germany February 21, 2018 When athletes from North and South Korea marched onto the field under the same flag in Pyeongchang on February 9, this was not the first time that two fiercely antagonistic states, one socialist and the other capitalist, jointly represent a divided nation at the Olympics. Read More
Interview Michael J. Ryan: A Taste for the Beautiful February 20, 2018 Darwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant colors of butterflies and fishes to the songs of birds and frogs. Read More
Interview Theodore Porter on Genetics in the Madhouse February 13, 2018 In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Read More
