A person or a thing? Inside the fight for animal personhood
Source: National Geographic
Happy the elephant is in the middle of a monumental court case with far-reaching consequences.
Opinion
Forget Everything You Think You Know About Time
Source: Pocket
A theoretical physicist challenges the widely-accepted linear representation of time.
Helicopters are ruining Shakespeare in the Park
Source: New York Post
Read about how helicopters disrupt theater-goers in New York City’s Central Park.
What a 13th-Century Medieval Text Can Teach Us About Queerness and Gender
Source: Lit Hub
While people may not typically look to the 13th-century medieval texts for shining examples of equitable representation, an old text about a knight in shining armor inspired author Alex Myers.
Worldcoin wants to give you cryptocurrency — in exchange for scanning your eyeballs
Source: Vox
Would you take cryptocurrency in exchange for your personal biometric data? Is this a massive privacy breach or the high-tech future of equity? Read to learn more about the pros and cons.
Teens on a Year That Changed Everything
Source: The New York Times
Teenagers reflect on a year of pandemic precautions through their words and artistic representations.
Growing Up Colored
Source: American Heritage
Henry Louis Gates describes what it was like to grow up as an African American in a West Virginia town in the 1950s.
Searching the Brain for the Roots of Fear
Source: The New York Times
Do you know the difference between fearing something and worrying about it? How do things that probably won’t do us any harm come to symbolize threats? This commentary from Joseph LeDoux, the director of the Emotional Brain Institute and a professor of neural science, describes the problems that arise when fear turns to anxiety.
You can do it, baby!
Source: Aeon
Journalist Leslie Garrett argues that adults shouldn’t tell children, “You could be anything,” but rather, “Be what you’re capable of.”
7 Things Really Bold People Do
Source: Inc.
Being bold doesn’t mean making a rash decision and rushing in, willy-nilly. Learn what it really means to be bold.