In My Blonde GF (2023), the UK writer Helen Mort discusses the confusion and horror of learning there was violent deepfake pornography featuring her likeness on the web, seemingly created using old, ...

teaches in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley and is the author of The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy (2024). As Jack London’s most autobiographical ...

is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Barnard College, Columbia University. His books include Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of ...

Beliefs in and the policing of witchcraft have been common throughout human history. But why? Many anthropologists believe that a fear of witchcraft accusations can help enforce social cohesion, but ...

A jaunty ride through London’s skateboarding scene, The Skatebook pulls from a wide range of perspectives to explore a culture that, per one interviewee, is ‘60 per cent community, 40 per cent ...

is emeritus associate professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, and a former political liaison, strategist and spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion. He is now ...

is professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester in New York. He is the author of several books, the latest being The Little Book of Aliens (2023). Suddenly, everyone is talking about ...

is assistant professor of government at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. His research focuses on the history of democratic thought and, especially, on early attempts to understand and theorise ...

‘Chirality’ refers to a property of molecules that come in two distinct varieties – a ‘right-handed’ and ‘left-handed’ form. At first glance, this concept may seem like an esoteric bit of knowledge ...

The Iñupiat are an Indigenous people native to northern Alaska who, for centuries, have lived mostly in seaside villages north of the Arctic Circle. With many of their villages inaccessible by roads, ...