This guest blog comes from Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator and most recently, The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs. The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs is full of techniques for forecasting and tracking, and for walking … Continue reading →

Earlier this year when we published My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past, we thought, and hoped, that readers would respond to Jennifer Teege’s haunting story as strongly as we had. Jennifer Teege, … Continue reading →

On May 25th in the year 1961, Saint Sophie’s day, Sophie la girafe was born. Not your typical giraffe, Sophie never grew past ten inches tall. Despite her small stature, she rose quickly—in fame, that is. The brainchild of Monsieur … Continue reading →

A recent study on selective eating has received a lot of attention recently in the news, covered in places like The Washington Post, Jane Brody’s Well column, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and many more. But the media aren’t … Continue reading →

Last week, Gretchen Reynolds wrote an article, “How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain,” for The New York Times, and it quickly became the #1 emailed article on nytimes.com. How many of us are flocking to cities, sweating in our … Continue reading →

Last week, Chirlane McCray, the First Lady of New York, launched a two-year initiative to distribute 200,000 baby book bundles, donated by Scholastic, to New York City families with children ages zero to three. This initiative is being launched in … Continue reading →

Nearly seven million people in the United States suffer from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), one of the largest risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. And those who don’t already have it may later develop it. According to researchers at the Mayo … Continue reading →

Two years ago almost to the day, The Experiment’s cofounder and publisher, Matthew Lore, wrote a post for this very blog celebrating the Supreme Court’s striking down of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act with the United States v. Windsor … Continue reading →

This guest blog comes from Seth Darling, a scientist specializing in energy and water research and co-author of How to Change Minds About Our Changing Climate. Climate Disruption—An Infallible Truth “Laudato Si,” Pope Francis’ recently released encyclical on the environment, … Continue reading →

This guest blog post comes from Keiron Pim, author of Dinosaurs: The Grand Tour, and lifelong dino enthusiast. No one went to see Jaws for a lesson in marine biology, and I don’t suppose many serious ornithologists exercised themselves over … Continue reading →