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Is the field of postcolonial studies inauthentic, a prisoner of Western mentalities? Amitava Kumar reflects on fierce debates in India... more »
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In 1973, The Secret Life of Plants was a bestseller. It left a decades-long taint over the field of plant behavior research... more »
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How did Richard Owen, a pioneering Victorian paleontologist, inspire such intense hatred among his contemporaries?... more »
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In the 1920s, young Cecilia Payne answered a vexing scientific question: What are stars made of? The scientific establishment was not pleased... more »
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Why have children stopped reading for fun? Blame screens, but not only screens... more »
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“The Bad Dad Joke is defined as much by what it leaves out as what it includes. Fear, rage, self-aggrandizement”... more »
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Melancholia, nostalgia, depression, exhaustion, bitterness, mourning: The dark psychic life of radical movements... more »
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Ice-age artists: Were they shamans high on mind-altering drugs? Or sober-minded chroniclers of the changing seasons?... more »
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Economics is just fancy equations and — in Thomas Piketty’s words — a “childish passion for mathematics.” Are such critiques fair?... more »
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Surrealism: What began as a utopian dream soon descended into in-fighting, dogma, and intolerant authority figures... more »
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