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Erika Lorraine Milam

History

Tarzan Wasn’t for Her

<a href="https://dugatkin.mystrikingly.com/">Lee Alan Dugatkin</a> is an animal behaviorist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science at the University of Louisville. He is the author of 15 books, including <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo212549914.html/">The Well-Connected Animal: Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies</a> and <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo25568406.html">How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog</a>.

Lee Alan Dugatkin

The Botanist Who Defied Stalin

Virat Markandeya

Environment

Digging Deeper Into Holocaust History

Caleb Scharf is an astrobiologist, author, and recipient of the 2022 Carl Sagan Medal. His latest book is The Giant Leap: Why Space is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life.

Caleb Scharf

Who Said Nobody Read Isaac Newton?

Ann-Sophie Barwich

What Did the Past Smell Like?

When Science Was the Best Show in America

Martha Cattell (<a href="https://twitter.com/marthacattell?lang=en/">Twitter</a>/<a href="https://www.instagram.com/martha.cattell/?hl=en/">Instagram</a>) is a creative practitioner and researcher whose work focuses the environment and moving image. Based in the United Kingdom, she recently finished her Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded PhD on the ethics of representing the whaling trade in visual arts.

Martha Cattell

Interrogating the Art and Science of Whaling Journals

Gillen D’Arcy Wood

The Greatest Journey of All Time

Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus, Emory University, is the author of Empire of Light: A History of Discovery in Science and Art and other writings about science in art and culture.

Sidney Perkowitz

If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist

Walter Murch’s six decades in cinema as film editor, sound mixer, writer, and director include work on The Godfather trilogy, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, and many other films. Murch has been nominated for nine Academy Awards and has won three Oscars: for Best Sound on Apocalypse Now and for Best Film Editing and Best Sound for his work on The English Patient. This essay is adapted from his book, Suddenly Something Clicked, to be published in 2025.

Walter Murch

The Carouser and the Great Astronomer

<a href="https://edsimon.org/">Ed Simon</a> is a staff writer at The Millions and the editor-in-chief at Belt Magazine. His most recent books are Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology and Binding the Ghost: Theology, Transcendence, and the Mystery of Literature. Follow him on X (formerly known as Twitter) @WithEdSimon.

Ed Simon

The Book That Invented the World

Ilan Kelman

What if Another Crisis Strikes During This Pandemic?