🔍 Discoveries

• 🌐True/False Travel

  An experimental travel guide leverages LLMs to create a playful, structured, and surprising exploration of fictionalized destinations, blending accuracy with creative fabrication.

• 🪦World's Oldest Mummies Discovered in Southeast Asia

  Ancient remains from Southeast Asia reveal mummification practices dating back 12,000 years, predating Egyptian and South American examples.

• 💎Nine Ways to Make a Diamond

  Explore how minerals shape life on Earth and beyond in our latest study, revealing nine unique ways to create a diamond.

• 🔮What Is Future-Mindedness?

  Prospection, a blend of memory and imagination, shapes our decisions and survival strategies through "mental time travel."

• 🦕The Bone Wars

  A bitter rivalry that unearthed dinosaurs and ignited a national obsession.

• 🔭Early-Career Astrophysicists and Social Scientists Will Have a Front-Row Seat for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Groundbreaking Night Sky Survey

  Early-career scientists gain unprecedented access to the stars with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s groundbreaking sky survey.

• 🔍The Hunt for Hieroglyphs

  Join the hunt for hieroglyphs! Discover how a stone found by French soldiers in 1799 became the key to unlocking ancient Egypt's secrets.

• 🤔One Million Years Ago, How Did Humans Think?

  Fossil digs and fMRIs offer new insights into the ways early humans lived and thought, more than a million years ago.

• 🧬The DNA Debate

  Dive into the DNA debate. Discover the untold story of Rosalind Franklin and the politics behind one of science's biggest breakthroughs.

• 🧠Training Faculty to Tackle the Big Questions of Today and Tomorrow

  A new round of fellowships will equip tenured philosophers and theologians to dive deeply into the empirical sciences

• 🌌Chance, Necessity, and the Origins of Life

  Minerals may offer a key to understanding how common life is in the universe

• 🔭An Evening Exploring the Unknown

  Astrophysics, Anthropology, and Journalism in Conversation at the Atlantic Festival

• 🔭Opportunity M - The Fast Track to Find Other Inhabited Worlds

  Deploying new tools in the search for planets capable of harboring life

• 🤔The Virtue of Curiosity

  A quartet of researchers are using computer games and brain scans to measure — and manipulate — our desire to know.

• 🌌NOVA Wonders

  A storied series provides a cutting-edge take on a set of age-old questions

• 🤔Getting to the Right Question — and Beyond

  Can a creative technique that works for third-graders help grad students launch their research careers?

• 🔍Same goes for grace?

  Quoting Lawrence Block.

• 🎨Portfolio | christytennant.com

  I recently created a vibrant WordPress banner and logotype for my friend Christy Tennant's website, showcasing her creative spirit.

• 📜Characters for an Epic Tale, by Tom Gauld

  I love how the content of a narrative can be projected just from a list of characters.

• 🎤Name that tune

  The fascinating disconnect between popular baby names and the names featured in Billboard Top 5 songs over the decades.

• 🛩️On a human plane

  A Spanish novelist explores our relationship with airplanes, urging us to view them more personally, akin to how we interact with living beings or ships.

• 🌊One works and works for something, which then happens of its own accord

  Reflecting on the nature of political transformation and the interplay of effort and grace, Weschler captures the essence of spontaneous uprising in his writings.

• 🗺️More delicate

  Quoting Elizabeth Bishop.

• 🤔Nothing succeeds like failure?

  The persistence of quack medicine highlights the complexities of belief and human psychology in health practices.

• 🏺Why loot when you can fake?

  How eBay's influence changed looting dynamics.

• 🎶Bring the noise

  Stanford music professor Jonathan Berger discusses how MP3s resonate with modern listeners.

• 🏠Tear-down, Silicon Valley, by Thomas Locke Hobbs

  Congratulations to my friend Thomas on reaching his 1000th photo blog post, showcasing the changing landscape of his neighborhood.

• 🎶Call + Response

  A powerful look into modern slavery and the fight for justice through music and activism, featuring insights from notable figures.

• 🌆For one minute please stand

  An invitation to reconsider and engage with our urban spaces through simple steps for transformation.

• 📉The decline of culture (as a search term)

  An exploration of the trends in public interest toward the concept of culture, observing seasonal fluctuations in search activity.

• 🇩🇪Legitimizing the Eszett

  An exploration of the recognition and preservation of unique European letters on the internet, including the Eszett in Germany.