Articles & Interviews

How the COVID-19 pandemic may provide us with something more than just fear and loneliness “So much is at stake now, and this pandemic could be game changer.” — Lars Svensen In...

It’s easy for us to take certain things for granted. Even when we’re sound asleep, for example, we don’t take into consideration all the work that was done, generation after...

  Unravelling the mysteries of deep space, one fast radio burst at a time In the earlier years of the space age, then US ambassador to the UN, Adlai Stevenson,...

“If ever a society could be said to meet all the mythological criteria of the next lost civilization — a society that ticks all the boxes — is it not obvious that it is...

Chances are that you've likely read some of Govert's work at some point in time or, well, space. An internationally acclaimed astronomy writer, Govert has authored over 50 books on a vast...

“The ego is not master in its own house.”  Among Sigmund Freud’s various calls to fame had been his tripartite theory of the id, ego, and superego — a compartmentalization of the...

In 2016, Stanford health psychologist, Kari Leibowitz, had spent almost a year in the small Norwegian city of Tromsø, whose residents are infamously known for a peculiar statistical anomaly: they...

The year was 1953. The world population hovered just under 4.5 billion; Joseph Stalin’s death captured headlines while Moscow experimented with the detonation of its first hydrogen bomb; Charlie Chaplin...