Category: Social Sciences

The ocean has always held a mirror to human ambition—its vastness inviting…

This spring, I had the pleasure of sitting in a crowded school gym in middle…

I don’t really understand metaphysics, but I do like to hear very smart people…

Am I the asshole “for confronting my brother after he proposed at my…

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In the summer of 1862, at the height of the Civil War, President Abraham…

Change moves at the speed of trust.” So says businessman and…

Where I live, in Berkeley, CA, it can seem like every other car is either a…

Radium is an element,” the chemist Marie Curie once told an interviewer. “It…

The debate over deep-sea mining has focused almost entirely on environmental…