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Regan Penaluna

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Regan Penaluna is a Brooklyn-based journalist who writes about science, philosophy, and the natural world. Her book How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind was a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

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Environment

Let There Be Dark

To unleash your imagination, step out of the light

February 3, 2026
Zoology

I Am Not a Monster

Science has turned the squid from a storied monster into a marvel.

September 25, 2017
Philosophy

Sexism Killed My Love for Philosophy Then Mary Astell Brought It Back

How one woman philosopher reinvigorated another.

August 30, 2017
Health

Ingenious: Jack Gilbert

The professor of surgery explains how health emerges from a healthy microbiome.

July 10, 2017
Philosophy

Head to Head: Should We Allow a Doping Free-for-All?

Two philosophers debate the ethics of performance enhancement.

August 11, 2016
Technology

Matchmaking Algorithms Are Unraveling the Causes of Rare Genetic Diseases

April 14, 2016
Philosophy

What It Feels Like to Be an Octopus

March 10, 2016
Sociology

How Single Women Are Changing Society

March 2, 2016
Technology

Why You Shouldn’t Swipe Left Too Quickly

February 9, 2016
Psychology

Would the World Be Better If Everyone Were a Do-Gooder?

The people pushing themselves to the moral limit.

February 8, 2016
Psychology

Why We Swim in Quarries

The powerful allure of the deep azure.

January 28, 2016
Technology

This Floating Contraption Could Scoop Out Absurd Amounts of Ocean Plastic

November 5, 2015
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