How a novel about video games became a surprise hit
The feeling of loss yielded a kernel of an idea, which Zevin jotted in a notebook: “Story of two game designers.
Ultrasound pulses send mice into a hibernation-like state
29 May 2023 1:30 PMEven laboratory mice, if deprived of food, can enter a state called torpor, a kind of standby mode that economizes energy.
Lineage matters: Cleopatra’s daughter led a life as eventful as her...
27 May 2023 1:30 PMThe record of her deeds lost in the heady accounts of the civil wars that convulsed the entire Mediterranean at the time.
Paradigm shift: Why varsities should be more like monasteries
27 May 2023 5:30 AMIt implies a return to the university system’s roots in the monastic schools of medieval Europe and rekindling the old-fashioned quest for meaning
Dangerous Addiction: Keeping plastic out of our oceans
26 May 2023 5:30 AMAnti-plastic policies only slightly reduce consumption, not nearly enough to offset the anticipated population growth in the years ahead.
Combat readiness: Why Ukraine needs those F-16s
23 May 2023 9:30 AMThe apex of current fighter technology is fifth-generation stealth fighters, which include the American F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II and Russia’s...
Cause & effect: Not every pandemic needs someone to blame
23 May 2023 5:30 AMThe public conversation has so often assigned blame for the spread of the coronavirus, based on ethnicity or underlying health conditions or political...
In memoriam: Martin Amis, author of bleakly comic novels, dies at 73
22 May 2023 1:30 PMAmis published 15 novels, a well-regarded memoir (“Experience,” in 2000), works of non-fiction, and collections of essays and short stories.