ArtsNovember 19, 2024
Poem: ‘The First Bite’
Science in meter and verse
Arts
ArtsOctober 31, 2024
Zoetrope Animation Is Back. Here’s How to Make One
Put your own spin on a zoetrope with homemade drawings—or carve one into a pumpkin
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ArtsOctober 15, 2024
Poem: ‘Alfred Wegener to the World’
Science in meter and verse
Book ReviewsSeptember 17, 2024
Book Review: Cryptography Is as Much an Art as a Science
A delightful course on keeping (and cracking) secrets
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
ArtsSeptember 17, 2024
Poem: ‘D.N.A.’
Science in meter and verse
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: 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: Powerful Myths Shape a Postapocalyptic World
In a postapocalyptic world on the verge of its next crisis, history gets rewritten
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
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
ArtsAugust 20, 2024
Poem: ‘Rocket Launch Laconic’
Science in meter and verse