January
- How a Zen Buddhist Monk and Hospital Chaplain Spends His Sundays #death #buddhism #zen #palliative_care
- I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music #music #insight #Beethoven #health
- How Bad Is Your Spotify? Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music. #spotify #ai #data_visualization #data #music
- A Nepali Team Just Made the First Winter Ascent of K2 #K2 #mountain #ascent #mountaineering #outside
- The pandemic is showing us which friendships are worth keeping #friendship #insight #disease #relationships
- The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber #science #mountain #ascent #mountaineering #climber #brain #amygdala
- Las abuelas, motor de la evolución humana #insight #science #evolution #msocial_sciences #abuela
February
- Have You Considered the Benefits of Crying? #japan #health #insight
- Has Tech Destroyed Society? #society #insight #wired
- The Dyatlov Pass mystery #mountain #death #science #mystery #nature
- 9 Russian Adventurers Mysteriously Froze to Death. A New Theory Explains Why #wired #science #mystery #mountain
- How Much Exercise Do You Need for Better Heart Health? #health #science
- Future Vaccines Depend on Test Subjects in Short Supply: Monkeys #health #death #science #nytimes #nature #paradox
March
- He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom #music #blindness #piano #artist #slavery #history #historical
- Vertical farms nailed tiny salads. Now they need to feed the world #wired #economics #food #nature #insight
- How to be an Atheist in Medieval Europe #lecturer #religion #atheism #middle_ages
- The Creativity of ADHD #science #creativity #disorder #health
- The Victims of Agent Orange the U.S. Has Never Acknowledged #science #vietnam #disorder #health #disease #war
- How 'research architecture' is redefining art #reconstruction #forensic #photogrammetry #journalism #investigation #documentary #research
- Our digitized world hasn’t just changed how we listen to music #music #insight #history
April
- Cells That ‘Taste’ Danger Set Off Immune Responses #disease #health #autoimmune #xi'am
- Married to the job: how a long-hours working culture keeps people single and lonely #insight #health #work #society #sociology
- The Biology of Grief #insight #health #life #society #sociology #death
May
- The Price They Pay for Your Perfect Vacation Photo #insight #health #life #society #sociology #death
- La sociedad anestesiada por la fobia al dolor #insight #health #life #society #sociology #pain #dolor
- Why we like the music we do #insight #music #culture #society #sociology
- Music in the brain #insight #music #culture #society #MRI #brain #scan
- The death of the universe #insight #science #universe #society
July
- Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine #insight #health #bio-hacking #reverse_engineering #SARS-CoV-2
- What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? #insight #health #watson #IBM #technology
- The U.S. Navy Tried to Turn Whale Songs Into Secret Code #war #whale #cryptography #code #intelligence
- It’s Never Too Late to Play the Cello #music #health
- Should rivers have the same rights as people? #river #environment #insight #the_guardian
- The Mathematics of musical composition #music #mathematics #composition #patterns
August
- Why are our cities built for 6ft-tall men? The female architects who fought back #architecture #design #insight #patterns
- Dallas Oberholzer: the 46-year-old Olympic skateboarder who fended off a jaguar #insight #skate #history-life
- How Le Corbusier Became Big in Japan #architecture #insight #corbusier
- Our brains exist in a state of “controlled hallucination” #insight #science #brain #cognition
- What’s Better, a Prize or a Patent? #insight #invention #ideas
September
- Steven Pinker Thinks Your Sense of Imminent Doom Is Wrong #insight #doom #perception
- The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something #insight #ideas #perception
- This is what happens when you see the face of someone you love #science #love #MIT
- Classical musicians suffer for their art #health #music #insight