Category: Social Sciences

Bagels, Bumf, and Buses

Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of

How far does the idea of academic freedom extend to professors in an era of racial reckoning? The protests of

One of America’s top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to

New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions. Mama’s Last

In Different, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behavior to

One of our most brilliant social critics – author of the best-selling The Middle Mind – presents a scathing critique of the

“Our relationship with nature has changed – radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch

For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western

A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online – and how we might yet defeat