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Why you laugh with your friends.

Epigenetics and behaviorism suggest the ancient Greeks were right.

The staple fish is having an identity crisis.

Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch describes the surprising idiosyncrasies of film scoring.

Burgers and fries have nearly killed our ancestral microbiome.

Samsø runs on renewable energy—and makes money doing it.

When I was invited to drum in Ghana, I gladly accepted. Then something went wrong.

The psychological power of narrative.

The rush for success is driving science into a corner, apart from wider culture.

How place names encode ecological change.

After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.

An engineering professor takes online-course critics to school.