Book ReviewsSeptember 17, 2024
Book Review: A Return to the Creepy Tensions of ‘Area X’
In Absolution, Jeff VanderMeer explores the mysteries in his Southern Reach Trilogy
Arts
Book ReviewsSeptember 17, 2024
Book Review: Powerful Myths Shape a Postapocalyptic World
In a postapocalyptic world on the verge of its next crisis, history gets rewritten
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Book ReviewsSeptember 17, 2024
Book Review: A Bold Profile of the James Webb Space Telescope
In Pillars of Creation, Richard Panek gets up close to the JWST
Book ReviewsSeptember 17, 2024
Book Review: How One Weird Rodent Ecologist Tried to Change the Fate of Humanity
A biography of the scientist whose work led to fears of a ‘population bomb’
Book ReviewsSeptember 17, 2024
Book Review: Cryptography Is as Much an Art as a Science
A delightful course on keeping (and cracking) secrets
ArtsSeptember 17, 2024
Poem: ‘D.N.A.’
Science in meter and verse
OpinionSeptember 4, 2024
The Olympics Breaking Fiasco Undermined Serious Hip-Hop Artists and Scholars
The “Raygun” Olympics fiasco points to how hip-hop scholarship is at risk of being colonized and undermined in academia
ArtsAugust 20, 2024
Poem: ‘Rocket Launch Laconic’
Science in meter and verse
Book ReviewsAugust 20, 2024
Review: Tiny Robots Render People Immortal but Destroy What Makes Us Human
A sweeping novel about a war-torn future explores personhood and identity
WeatherJuly 30, 2024
Tornado Scientists Love Twister and Twisters. Here’s Why
Weather experts talk about why the film Twister is often such a favorite among tornado researchers and what they think of its new stand-alone sequel, Twisters
ArtsJuly 26, 2024
Taylor Swift and Bach Can Thank Ancient Temples for Modern Music
The basic notes, rests and harmonies of Western music arose as humans heard how sounds traveled through the first large temples, built more than 2,000 years ago
ArtsJune 25, 2024
Poem: ‘An Ars Poetica’
Science in meter and verse