The Atlantic

“What did the farmer say when he lost his tractor? ‘Where’s my tractor?’”

Do you think a giant asteroid caused the earth’s most recent mass extinction? Princeton paleontologist Gerta Keller has a competing theory, and her decades of research have earned her so much ire in the scientific community that she keeps a list of insults others have thrown at her.

An oral history of the groundbreaking hit show “Living Single.”

Anna Wiener explores what 13 years of the data she’s given Facebook can give back to her.

Contempt in court: female lawyers still consistently confront archaic discrimination.

Oy vey, seventy-five years of show business? Where did the time go? It hasn’t slowed down Brooks one bit.

“The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it. This is the stuff of tragedy, and America.”

Lawyers have long set a precedent for citing Shakespeare in trial. During these murky, divided days the Bard’s words may ring truer than e’er. 

The times they are a-changin’, sang Bob Dylan way back when people could smoke inside airplanes. Now digital jukeboxes are changing the vibe at America’s bars, but is that a bad thing?

The jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas. Despite its ability to kill people with little effort, its adaptability, secrecy and avoidance of human conflicts might provide the traits necessary to survive on a planet filled with people.