An interview with Marion Nestle and Kerry Trueman

An interview with Rob DeSalle

An interview with Kyle Johannsen

An interview with Michael Fisch

An interview with Snezana Lawrence

An interview with Daniel Oberhaus

An interview with Daniel A. Barber

An interview with Robert Baker

An interview with Jennifer Burek Pierce

An interview with Jonathan Sadowsky

An interview with Beth Shapiro

An interview with Charles R. Acland

An interview with Elizabeth Catte

An interview with Alyson K. Spurgas

An interview with Paul Davies

An interview with Eben Kirksey

An interview with Jeff Levin

An interview with Richard Ovenden

An interview with Mark Maslin

Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century...

The story of the battlefield in the 20th century was dominated by a handful of developments. Foremost of these was the introduction and refinement of tanks...

An interview with Nick Haddad

Kelty offers a historical ethnography of the concept of participation, investigating how the concept has evolved into the form it takes today...

An interview with Jose Sanchez

Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s...

The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages...

After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library to collect everything ever printed...

Ballestero looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America...

Fretwell allows us to reconsider the history of psychophysics and psychology through the lens of sensory studies and to rethinking science in the context of racial capitalism....

Hype can be combated and discounted, though, if you're able to see exactly where, how and why it is being deployed...

Virginia Postrel describes how humans coevolved with textiles...

O. Carter Snead defines for us what the term “public bioethics” encompasses and provides a much-needed genealogy of the field....

Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing....

Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy...

Weigel and Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels,,,

Consumers may love their products and services but, among politicians and activists, the big-technology companies are fast developing a reputation as the Robber Barons of the 21st century...

Stein shows how high-school algebra and basic probability theory, with the invaluable assistance of computer simulations, can be used to investigate both the intuitive and the counterintuitive....

An estimated 80 million people live with a neurodegenerative disease, with this number expected to double by 2050...

Campbell explores how a therapy that can stop an accidental drug overdose, called Naloxone, emerged in the American mainstream in the early years of the new millennium...

Singer brings together the most consequential essays of his career to make this devastating case against our failure to confront what we are doing to animals, to public health, and to our planet...

Sauer presents a powerful and important framework for reconciling the historically changing divide between science and religion...

Bench traces the changing ways dance is distributed and created on the internet from the heady early internet of the 1990s to the ubiquitous social media platforms of today.,,

Snyder offers an in-depth study of hope's exploitation...

Weltman surveys a number of ways this conception of mathematics has informed scientific undertakings and public policies, not to mention our everyday behaviors, and makes a powerful case for reevaluating its assumptions...

Rafalow provides an ethnographic study of students and teachers at three Los Angeles schools utilizing instructional technology...

Using case studies and the results of extensive fieldwork, this book considers the nature of state power and legal violence in liberal democracies by focusing on the interaction between law, science, and policing in India...

While various systems theories have received rigorous treatments across the literature of the field, reliable and robust advice for systems practice can be somewhat harder to come by...

Wang explores how rural China is not just adapting the technology used around the world, but innovating on it...

What are chromosomes? And what does it mean to treat them as visual objects?

Leguizamón explores why Argentines largely support GM soy despite the widespread damage it creates...

Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology focuses on the emerging scientific discipline of astrobiology, exploring many of the humanistic issues this multidisciplinary field is generating.

Rhodes explicates the sixteen specific duties that doctors take on when they join the profession...

The Icelandic mappae mundi were a series of maps produced in the late medieval period (c. 1225 - c. 1400) that bore witness to fundamental changes in the landscape of vernacular literary culture, scientific thinking and regional geopolitics...

Strocchia continues the work of her career: recentering the discourse to include the formative contributions of women in the Italian Renaissance...

At the book’s center is a neglected treasure of the late Renaissance: the Four Elements manuscripts of Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600), a learned Netherlandish merchant, miniaturist, and itinerant draftsman...

Just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself....

Deudney argues that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war...

DeNardis shows that the policy tools and normative constructs we have built around the internet are outdated...

Monopoly, Solitaire, football and Minecraft are all games, but for C. Thi Nyugen they are also an art form – specifically, the art form of agency...

Are robots going to be our overlords? No, we can make them our friends...

Rutkow retraces the fascinating, decades-long history of the attempt to build the world’s longest highway...

Cmiel and Peters provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google...

Liu’s book offers a fascinating new history of this ubiquitous beverage, leveraging its production, consumption, and global circulation to offer a fresh and compelling account of capitalist accumulation....

This is the second episode of a two-part conversation with Hodgson...

A compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalf...

In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are—intelligent, aware, and empathetic. Studies show that animals are astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities...

Myers and Frumkin illustrate the interconnectedness of human health and the health of our planet...

Rahder offers a rich ethnography of knowledge-making practices in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, the largest nature reserve in Central America...

The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern...

Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who participate in state programs...

Why Give a Damn About Strangers?

Zhang offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times...

In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities...

In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to engage the ear, eye, and intellect..,

What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it?

Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations...

Almeling provides an in-depth look at why we do not talk about men’s reproductive health and this knowledge gap shapes reproductive politics today...

Open Access is spelled with a capital O and a capital A at the Public Library of Science (or PLOS, for short), a nonprofit Open Access publisher...

In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and animal alike...

Hefferman explores the people and organizations who aren’t daunted by uncertainty: ‘We are addicted to prediction, desperate for certainty about the future...

In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia...

Whysner offers an accessible and compelling history of toxicology and its key findings....

Tuchman describes the history of how the perception of diabetes has evolved over the past two centuries...

The first people to record their reactions to the falls in North America were fascinated by its beauty and power...

In the view of Anthony Hodgson, fragmentation of local and global societies is escalating, and this is aggravating vicious cycles...

Living, as we do, in a time in which a U.S. president anoints himself “a very stable genius”, we are particularly appreciative of Eric Weiner, a former foreign correspondent for NPR who writes with humility and humor, as he brings us along with him on his travels to times and places that produced genius...

“How did life begin? Most things in the universe aren't alive, and yet if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals back far enough, you will find that, at some point, neither were we....

van Dooren offers an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows...

What is the relationship between science, religion and technology in Hinduism?

We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies...

After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project...

Mitra shows how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society...

This is the story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....

Dorner unravels the intertwined history of financial markets, health concerns, and colonial warfare...

Davis offers a field report on how ordinary people dealing with common problems explain their suffering, how they’re increasingly turning to the thin and mechanistic language of the “body/brain,” and what these encounters might tell us....

Chater contends just the opposite: rather than being the plaything of unconscious currents, the brain generates behaviors in the moment based entirely on our past experiences...

Safina looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth’s remaining wild places. It shows how if you’re a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too experience your life with the understanding that you are an individual within a particular community...

What obligations do we have to our pets?

How are algorithms changing journalism?

Posner explores the fascinating and complex history of pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries. It is an industry like no other and a story like no other...