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Natalie Angier

Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize–winning science columnist for The New York Times and the author of Woman: An Intimate Geography, among other books.

Doors of Perception

Doors of Perception

The often unreliable ways we interpret reality

by Natalie Angier | Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Bugging Out

Bugging Out

The buzzing, crawling creatures we would be lost without

by Natalie Angier | Thursday, September 17, 2020
Why We Need Art

Why We Need Art

Can evolutionary biology explain the human impulse to create?

by Natalie Angier | Monday, December 04, 2017
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Birthday Suit

by Natalie Angier | Friday, September 01, 2006
The Crisis Up Close

The Crisis Up Close

Wandering our warming world

by Natalie Angier | Wednesday, December 10, 2014
A Taste for Higher Math

A Taste for Higher Math

The numbers that count

by Natalie Angier | Wednesday, March 04, 2015
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Science Doubters

When healthy skepticism turns into unhealthy antagonism

by Natalie Angier | Tuesday, December 01, 2009

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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