Hollywood Didn’t Know Exactly What to Do With Donald Sutherland – So They Did Everything With Him
Daryl Sparkes at The Conversation: I don’t think Hollywood knew what to do with Donald…
The Enduring Mystery of How Water Freezes
Elise Cutts at Quanta: We learn in grade school that water freezes at zero degrees…
Facts v. Values, Numbers v. Ideology: Which is More Important for a Healthy Democracy?
Osita Nwanevu and Oliver Traldi at Wisdom of Crowds: Dear Osita, You and I both…
Friday Poem: Inshallah My Cell Phone
left my phone unlockedon the taxi’s back seat,won’t be the last time called it a…
“If you Want to Respect the Rule of Law You’ve Got to Start From the Original Law Giver, Which Was Moses”
Liz Wolfe at Reason Roundup: “The Commandments do not confine themselves to arguably secular matters,…
J. P. Mallory: Indo-Europeans Found?
Razib Khan at Razib Khan’s Unsupervised Learning: J. P. Mallory, discusses his reaction to the…
Snake Plant
Shared by Arif Mirza, Toronto: NASA has classified Sansevieria–now called Snake plant–as an air purifier…
Thursday Poem: ‘Ghazal’
The wine-dark pain spills over, in my bed alone.In nighttime stillness is my heart beset…
Tiny Beauty: How I Make Scientific Art From Behind the Microscope
Josie Glausiusz in Nature: Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble:…
Ancient Genomes Reveal Which Children the Maya Selected For Sacrifice
By Freda Kreier at The New York Times: In the spring of 1967, workers building…
Whole Foods’ John Mackey: We Must Change How We Think About Capitalism
Nick Gillespie at Reason: Today’s guest is John Mackey, the co-founder and former CEO of…
Wednesday Poem: Night, the Poem
If you find your true voice, bring it tothe land of the dead. There is…