Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.

Asseraf examines the workings of the “news ecosystem” in Algeria from the 1880s to the beginning of the Second World War...

Nahin offers a thorough study of the history and mathematics of the heat equation, which is not only important as an analysis of heat, its analysis marked the beginning of Fourier series...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Currie explains that these scientists are “methodological omnivores,” with a variety of strategies and techniques at their disposal, and that this gives us every reason to be optimistic about their capacity to uncover truths about prehistory...

Selwyn examines the concepts, tools and practices that sociologists are developing to analyze the intersections of the social and the digital...

Roberts reveals the nuances of Chinese censorship in the age of the internet...

Finocchiaro shows that there were (and are) really two Galileo “affairs.”

Reagle examines these attempts to systematize living and finds that they are the latest in a long series of self-improvement methods...

An interview with Ryan P. Burge

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet...

Sorgner makes the case for a Nietzschean transhumanism...

Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..

Appelbaum reconstructs how elites, through visual and textual methodologies, envisioned the nation and its component parts...

Turner explains why AI is unique, what legal and ethical problems it could cause, and how we can address them...

Whitington examines the dynamics and discourses centered around the development of hydropower dams in the Mekong River Basin...

Adrian Wisnicki talks about the British expeditionary literature of the late 1800s.

Devlin builds on the science and the philosophy surrounding our most intimate relationship with technology...

D'Ignazio and Klein call for changing the way we think about data and how it is communicated, particularly through visualization...

Rechtenwald argues that Big Digital technologies and their principals represent not only economic powerhouses but also new forms of governmental power...

Should robots have rights?

How does the world of book reviews work?

If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...

Amy Shira Teitel talks about Apollo and the community of people who are deeply attached to space history.

Jones engages readers in a five-year mixed-methods study she conducted on the erotic webcam industry where she tells a pornographic story about the multibillion-dollar online sex industry that is colloquially known as “camming.”