Commencement

The campus of the future is a strange, unsettling place

Tell the Riddle Right

Subtle linguistic manipulations can change how we interpret questions

Darwin’s Finches

In the Galápagos, a speed course on evolution

Keeping Score

How test prep widens the achievement gap

Science, Right and Wrong

The evolution of knowledge

Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in EverythingBy Philip Ball / Brilliant Blunders By Mario Livio

Think Again

The secret to Portland’s success

Empire Builders

There were a few good men among them, weren’t there?

Friends Don’t Let Friends Listen and Drive

Is it dangerous to drive under the influence of … language?

Our Artful Brain

What it takes to take in, say, a Picasso

It’s Academic

Colleges need to rethink their priorities

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

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