Featured book: Curious Minds
November 17, 2022
What is curiosity? Authors Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett offer an exhilarating exploration of curiosity’s powerful capacity to connect ideas and people.
Category: Featured Books
Featured book: Master of the Two Left Feet
November 15, 2022
An account of the life and work of a once-famous self-taught American artist of the 1940s.
Featured book: Tornado of Life
November 3, 2022
An ER doctor shows how empathy, creativity, and imagination are the cornerstones of clinical care.
Featured book: Behind Their Screens
October 21, 2022
Harvard researchers Weinstein and James explore how teens navigate a networked world and how adults can support them.
Featured book: Methuselah’s Zoo
September 16, 2022
In Methuselah’s Zoo by Steven Austad, stories of long-lived animal species and what they might teach us about human health and longevity.
Featured book: How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
August 31, 2022
Gerd Gigerenzer’s How to Stay Smart in a Smart World reveals how to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to “turn right in 500 yards.“
Watch: The secret sex lives of animals
August 10, 2022
Emmanuelle Pouydebat’s Sexus Animalis argues that there is nothing unnatural in nature.
Featured book: WBCN and the American Revolution
June 6, 2022
How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system in the 1960s and 1970s.
A conversation with Robert Buderi, author of Where Futures Converge
June 3, 2022
Buderi discusses the inspiration behind his book and the history of Kendall Square.
Featured book: The Digital Closet
May 19, 2022
How is heteronormative bias deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and more?