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John McAfee's suicide in a Spanish prison gives us another opportunity to ponder the interconnections of family life, psychology, and c...

 Via Scott Siskind, an interesting study of peer review: Peer-review is widely used throughout academia, most notably in the publication of...

In the New York mayoral primaries yesterday, former police captain Eric Adams had the lead on the Democratic side, after running the post-Ge...

In 2016, Venezuelan photographer Tas Careaga purchased this abandoned 16th-century church in northwestern Spain and spent three years transf...

Ethiopia is holding what some say will be its freest ever national election, and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's party is expected to win. M...

Plan of a Re-Opened Grave in Regensburg, Germany In our world, we bury dead bodies in the ground and are then (we hope) finished with them. ...

A very important sort of skepticism: Police thought that 17-year-old Marty Tankleff seemed too calm after finding his mother stabbed to dea...

From my daughter Clara. The dodo bird is a reference to a story my son Ben and I have been working on together, about a boy who becomes a so...

As I discovered at the Home Depot last week, you can either get your brightly colored cacti by buying grafted plants like these. Or, if you ...

Migsihi Kōtarō (1903-1934) was a Japanese artist who painted in a European style, much influenced by French avant garde art; he even staged ...

Guido Strazza,  Light Blue Aura,  1991 Can you be a gay Orthodox Jew? I would have said "no," but this essay argues that the idea ...

Forming up for an Juneteenth parade in Charleston, South Carolina, 1877 Juneteenth is an African American holiday that began in Galveston, T...

Columnist Frank Bruni, retiring from the Times, says his regrets are all about the times he took cheap, partisan shots: I owe Ted Cruz an ...

Samuel Prout (1783-1852) was a British artist best known for his watercolors and drawings of buildings.  One of his students was John Ruskin...

Thinking over our discussion of John Holt's How Children Fail , I was struck by how often we invoke positive and negative emotions in ou...

Many of the tech-savvy, internet-native people who frequent Scott Siskind's blog are convinced that school ruins children. Someone else ...

‘Tis true, ‘tis day, what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise because ‘tis light? Did we lie down becaus...

Julie Creswell has a great article in the Times about Starbucks. The focus is on the shortages that are plaguing the firm this spring, as s...

Apollo, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, 1718 The history and cartography of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast , a Jewish colony on the Amur River in...

This pamphlet, titled A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction/Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction , is the weirdest thing I have ...

I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep li...

Nigeria is having a bad spring. Rebel groups are active in at least three regions, including the southern areas where people tried in the 19...

Photographer Tony Austin stumbled across a murder of crows while out walking and got out his camera. But then one of the birds started act...

Joe Moran: In How Buildings Learn: What happens after they’re built (1995), Stewart Brand sings the praises of a sprawling, ramshackle edifi...

It looks like Congress is about to pass a major piece of bipartisan legislation, the American Innovation and Competition Act. Faced with an...

Stalin in 1902, Police Photo Young Stalin  (2007) is the best biography I have read in years. Simon Montefiore is a terrific writer, Stalin ...