Climate Change
Bold Climate Fixes Won’t Wreck Middle Class Retirement Plans
Inequality ensures that feared financial losses moving away from fossil fuels will fall most heavily on the wealthy, and not on the poor and middle class
Opinion
Psychology
To Lead a Meaningful Life, Become Your Own Hero
From Gilgamesh to Star Wars, the narrative blueprint underpinning many heroic tales can offer a powerful way to reframe experiences
Space Exploration
Here’s How to Bring Mars Down to Earth: Let NASA Do What NASA Does Best
Increasing NASA’s budget would ease pressure and allow it to dream even bigger
Psychology
Children Face Unequal Treatment in the Classroom—With Devastating Consequences
Students often receive feedback that conveys expectations linked to their socioeconomic background
Ethics
Doctors Do Racist Things to Patients. Here Are Seven Ways They Can Stop
Physicians need to be aware of how their choice of words and patient labels affect patients
Food
Does Humanity Have to Eat Meat?
Meat eating may not have made us human after all, say paleoanthropologists
Climate Change
The World Solved Acid Rain. We Can Also Solve Climate Change
Lessons from how we tackled acid rain can be applied to our world today
Nutrition
Spicy Food Probably Doesn’t Cause Long-Term Harm
While spicy food can cause pain, it isn’t linked to higher mortality rates
Sex & Gender
To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions
The answer to the question of how many sexes exist differs depending on the context
History
Before Trump, before Agnew, Hate Mail Reveals Long-Simmering Hostility to Journalists
While contempt for news organizations is intense in the wake of Trump, archived hate mail to reporters shows that even in the 1950s—supposedly the height of public trust in journalism—some Americans always despised the press...
