The Three Ways of Going Down a Wikipedia Rabbit Hole
If you’ve ever gone to look up a quick fact and just kept browsing from one article (or page, or video), to another, to ...
Sarah Polkinghorne
If you’ve ever gone to look up a quick fact and just kept browsing from one article (or page, or video), to another, to another – then you know the feeling of ...
How a Die-Off of Vultures Cost a Country Billions
Vultures aren't most people's favorite animal. But when they began dying in India, they set in motion a domino effect that spread disease and cost the government billions of dollars.
The Three Biases Fueling Belief in Conspiracy Theories
The modern world is full of conspiratorial thinking: People see an event and come up with an extraordinary story, a “hidden truth” that explains everything. These extravaga ...
The Energy Transition We Really Should Be Focusing On
The long story of human energy use revolves around two letters: H and C. These letters represent a pair of elements: hydrogen ...
How the World's Oldest Cities Helped Humans Evade Diseases
In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived ...