“Scary play lets people—and other animals—rehearse coping skills for disturbing challenges in the real world.”
Search results
Posted inEditor's Pick
What Is Narcissism?
“Researchers debate whether grandiosity always masks vulnerability.”
Posted inReading List
Kingdom of Funga: A Mycelial Reading List on a Strange and Surreal World Around Us
Seven stories celebrating the mystery and power of fungi.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand
“Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped?”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don’t Know It
“Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Leopards Are Living Among People. And That Could Save the Species.
“For leopards to survive, we must learn to live with them.”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending reads from David A. Taylor, Rebecca Solnit, Nicholas Russell, D.T. Max, and Jori Lewis.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
“In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Reads from Zefyr Lisowski, David Gessner, Susie Cagle, Brendan I. Koerner, and Athena Aktipis and Coltan Scrivner.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology.
