February 18, 2025

Csaba Szabo in Conversation with Robyn Massey About Unreliable

All too often, issues encountered in today’s scientific publication process can profoundly shape research integrity. Reproducibility—the ability to replicate experimental findings—is essential to scientific methodology. Yet an alarming proportion of biomedical research papers struggle with independent verification. In Unreliable: Bias,...

February 15, 2025

The Life and Deaths of Illicit Gold in South Africa:

A Global Story

Rosalind C. Morris

Informal miners in South Africa sometimes explain an underground accident by saying that a witch has thrown death in the hole. Death emerged in mid-January, in the partially decomposed bodies of 78 informal miners brought to the surface in the...

February 13, 2025

Rob Lalka on How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power

Rob Lalka’s new book, The Venture Alchemists: How Big Tech Turned Profits Into Power, reexamines the familiar stories of America’s most famous entrepreneurs, uncovering the profound societal impacts of their decisions—and the unseen trade-offs that shape our world. Today, the...

February 8, 2025

10 Must-Read Books for Black History Month 2025

Understanding the impact of Black labor is key to understanding Black history and culture, as well as its influence on the United States. This year’s Black History Month theme—African Americans and Labor, free, unfree, vocational, and voluntary—explores how work has...

February 1, 2025

A Hypothetic Interview: When the Artist Considers Himself

James B. Haile III

The Dark Delight of Being Strange is an experimental work combining the elements of Black speculative fiction, Afro-surrealism, Black philosophy, and Black studies to think through the meaning and implications of Black freedom. Dark Delight invites us to imagine and...

January 31, 2025

John Wiens on Becoming an Ecologist

Initially, Becoming an Ecologist: Career Pathways in Science was meant to be a memoir that mapped my career journey, tracking the changes in study topics, locations, and even disciplines through the years. I thought a record of my path—what I...

January 28, 2025

Tessa Hill on At Every Depth

Beneath the waves and along the coasts of the world’s oceans, climate change and environmental degradation have spurred the most radical transformations in human history. In At Every Depth, the oceanographer Tessa Hill and the science journalist Eric Simons bring...

January 27, 2025

Ellen Prager and Dave Jones Encourage Readers, “Please, Ask Questions!”

From toddlers asking why they can’t eat the yellow snow to an adult inquiring if their coastal home will be underwater in a few years due to sea level rise, asking questions is essential to learning, to science, and to...

January 22, 2025

Robert E. Kirsch and Emily Ray on Be Prepared

How does someone escape the solitary fate of life in the bunker to instead meet collective problems together with their community? In Be Prepared: Doomsday Prepping in the United States, coauthors Robert Kirsch and Emily Ray trace political and cultural...

January 20, 2025

Is It Possible to Have a Disciplined White House with an Undisciplined President?

Matthew N. Beckmann

Donald Trump recently named Susie Wiles as his incoming White House chief of staff. Wiles proved herself a focused, organized campaign manager, and she intends to bring that manner and method to the White House: “My team and I will...

January 20, 2025

Lauren Coyle Rosen and Hannibal Lokumbe on Music, Life, and Liberation

For Hannibal Lokumbe, music is a profound source of spiritual liberation. A pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician, Lokumbe composes resonant works that give voice to the freedom struggle of the African diaspora, the broader African American experience, Indigenous...

December 16, 2024

Mike Harmon on The Financial Restructuring Tool Set

Many companies globally are saddled with excessive levels of debt. This can lead to financial distress. In The Financial Restructuring Tool Set: How to Fix Your Broken Balance Sheet, Mike Harmon provides an indispensable guide tailored for executives, business owners,...