Making New Friends: The Genetics of Animal Domestication
The story of the Russian geneticists who domesticated the silver fox....
How to Travel in Time
Is the age of time travel already over, and when did it begin?...
Our Deplorable Selves: Alan Alda’s Improv Antidote
K. C. Cole looks at Alan Alda's "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?"...
Cybersexism in Three Acts
Richard Grusin reviews Laura Poitras's "Risk," her look at Julian Assange....
After the Facts
What can a 1957 Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy movie tell us about the fate of middle-class jobs?...
On Desire and Disease
Suzanne Koven reviews David B. Morris's "Eros and Illness."...
Only Desert in China Lake
Kevin Zambrano on Barret Baumgart's "China Lake: A Journey into the Contradicted Heart of a Global Climate Catastrophe."...
Culture Machines: On Ed Finn’s “What Algorithms Want”
Scott Selisker reviews Ed Finn's "What Algorithms Want."...
The Slide Rule and the Crowbar: Henry David Thoreau in the Anthropocene
Daegan Miller reviews Robert M. Thorson’s “The Boatman: Henry David Thoreau’s River Years.”...
Big Oil’s High-Risk Love Affair with Film
Big oil and Hollywood came of age together....
Forging Nature: On “The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium”
Colin Dickey reviews Juan Pimentel’s “The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History.”...
Can the Great Lakes Be Saved?
Vicky Albritton and Fredrik Albritton Jonsson review Dan Egan’s “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes.”...
