It's no new big news that we're living in an era of distraction. States are trying to clamp down on cell phones in schools, ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer, a Potawatomi botanist, author, and MacArthur Fellow, is bridging Indigenous wisdom with Western science.

Though I am familiar with the Scopes trial, I was pleased to read “A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes trial, the original fight ...

We've rounded up 14 sci-fi and fantasy books coming out this month, so you can curl up with a good book while you wait out ...

Orbital” by Samantha Harvey is a fascinating and contemplative new piece of science fiction that gives readers an eye-opening ...

I picked up Racing Green by Kit Chapman, which I really enjoyed! So when I was interested in picking up more nonfiction, ...

From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

The following first ran on CounterPunch at the height of the COVID pandemic in January of 2022. Are anti-vaccine propagandists really being censored?

When educator Jane Dabney Shackelford wrote and published The Child’s Story of the Negro and Helen Adele Whiting wrote Negro Folk Tales for Pupils in the Primary Grades and Negro Art, Music and Rhyme ...

It may take months and sometimes years to form a habit. However, if you're exceptionally good at something, you might develop ...

I honestly don’t know how you can read that paragraph and not be immediately charmed by the prospect of consuming this ...

Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural ...