You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat

Veronique Greenwood in Harvard Magazine: IN THE LATE 2000s, Rachel Carmody was spending a lot of time…

Thirty Years of Talking About Pablo Escobar

Juan Gabriel Vásquez in El Pais: Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug trafficker in history,…

The Average American Is a Millionaire

Jeremy Horpedahl in The City Journal: The Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Finances contains several revelations about…

Rivers in Alaska are Turning Orange. The Reason Surprised Even Scientists.

By Fabiana Chaparro, CNN: The finding surprised researchers from the National Park Service, the University…

Friday Poem: ‘Enigmas’ by Pablo Neruda

You asked me what the lobster is weaving there with his…. golden feet?I reply, the…

The Institute of Illegal Images

Erik Davis at The Paris Review: The Institute of Illegal Images (III) is housed in…

Mounting Research Shows That COVID-19 Leaves its Mark on the Brain, Including With Significant Drops in IQ Scores

Ziyad Al-Aly in The Conversation: From the very early days of the pandemic, brain fog emerged as…

The Mysteries and Quirks of Human Memory

Erica Goode in Undark: AUTHORS DON’T GET to choose what’s going on in the world when…

How the World Made the West

Steven Poole at The Guardian: “Western civilisation” would not exist without its Islamic, African, Indian…

AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class

David Autor in Noema Magazine: In a recent interview with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak,…

About The New Disability Media

By Faye Ginsburg and B. Ruby Rich at Film Quarterly Dossier: This dossier has been…

Thursday Poem: Exit Strategy

Tell me there is a way to believe it all,an exit strategy with groggy murmursof…