Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance

In an essay from Amanda Hess's memoir 'Second Life,' she explores her parasocial relationship with the freebirther subculture amid her medicalized pregnancy.

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Was Zabihollah Mansouri secretly a prolific author?

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The cosmic traveller flying at 61km/s and steaming with gaseous cyanide is only the third object we’ve detected in our solar system that came from another star. And one Harvard professor believes it may be an alien spacecraft with malicious intent.

A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects

He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as …

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Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

When Nolan’s space epic was released in 2014, critics picked at the plot holes and scientists picked at the science – now, 11 years later, it’s the internet’s favourite film. Was it just ahead of its time?

It was one of those nights we wait all year for, the first night where you can go outside without a coat or a sweater. I walked up Lincoln Avenue after an uncommonly good production of Hamlet, and thinking many thoughts about the play. They’d gotten Hamlet right, which is rare enough that I should…

The complicated story of James Watson, whose landmark DNA discovery with Francis Crick was later overshadowed by his deeply offensive remarks

Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.