8. Culture & Curiosity!

This weekend marks the 107th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

Spotify dominates music streaming but its payment rate to artists continues to generate controversy. Will recent musician-led protests bring about change?

From Haru Nemuri’s punk-inflected J-pop to Coco & Clair Clair’s spaced-out diss tracks, Ralphie Choo’s computerized flamenco and MUNA’s synth-pop fireworks, here are some standout pop songs and albums from this year.

Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and Xiao Qi Ji are preparing for their journey to China. Help the Smithsonian's National Zoo celebrate and say goodbye!

'Loki' still feels just as special as ever. In its Season 2 premiere, the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series proves, once again, why it's still the best Disney+ original that Marvel has ever made.

Joy Williams’s new book, Harrow, is out today. When asked if she would answer a few questions in honor of its publication, she asked if she could send her answers to us by snail mail. She had recen…

The Japanese cast and crew of Sofia Coppola's 'Lost in Translation' reflect on their experiences decades later.

The stunning experiment, which reconstructs the properties of entangled photons from a 2D interference pattern, could be used to design faster quantum computers.

Transformational festivals, the psychedelic renaissance, and cryptocurrencies: Thoughts of an apostate

Have you noticed Americans are beginning to reject hate?Trump’s popularity — even among Republicans — is dropping like a stone, and parents are beginning to show up in large numbers at school board meetings to talk back to bigots and haters. MSNBC and CNN are filled with Republicans who have rejecte...

On nearly every continent, and for all of recorded history, thriving cultures have recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders.

The Latest Studies on Sexual Attraction Would Make Darwin Sick But it explains why evolutionary psychology is problematic. Please note: I am moving content over to Substack. If you would like to …

Hair is not just hair, it's identity, says Kyle Ring, founder of the diversity-celebrating Instagram account @in.hair.itance

In the face of new evidence, physicists are starting to view the cosmos not as made up of disparate layers, but as a quantum whole linked by entanglement

Rivka Galchen on how new research shows that people got the model of aggression and dominance, derived from wolf-pack behavior, wrong.

OSAKA -- A Japanese research team is making progress on the development of a groundbreaking medication that may allow people to grow new teeth, with c

Video of the captain's latest encounters shows orcas "biting off both rudders" of his yacht, with one of the whales seen swimming around with a piece of the rudder in its mouth.

The pandemic and its aftermath have raised anxiety to new levels. But the roots of anxiety-related conditions, including obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder (OCSD), are still unclear. In a new study, University of Utah Health scientists discovered insights into the importance of a minor cell type in the brain—microglia—in controlling anxiety-related behaviors in laboratory mice. Traditionally, neurons—the predominant brain cell type—are thought to control behavior.

Scientists worked out how long past messages would take to arrive at different stars, and how long it would take a response to arrive.

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Naturist Resort Gecko just opened its doors in Bali in 2023 and is a luxury and social destination for the naturist traveler.

Two players leverage quantum rules to achieve a seemingly telepathic connection

I am an unequivocal rationalist and yet I still want to see something strange and wonderful in life’s weird coincidences