Each issue profiles one chemical element, covering its discovery, history, and surprising properties, with a focus on uses from ancient metallurgy to modern aerospace and nuclear technology. It reads as an accessible, illustrated tour of the periodic table, with the three opening issues covering carbon, boron, and beryllium.
Website: https://the-wonder-files.ghost.io/
A professor of evolutionary psychology writes about sex differences, the nature-nurture debate, and human behaviour, often discussing new papers and excerpts from his book. Readers get research-based commentary with evolutionary context and the author's own views.
Experimental History publishes essays that test popular claims against data and ideas from psychology, economics and the history of science. Readers get contrarian, humorous, evidence-driven takes on topics like AI and jobs, loneliness statistics, and why discoveries happen.
Each issue takes a recent news event, such as a DNS resolver leaving France or a new Airbnb rule, and tests it against an unrelated field to find a shared pattern. It works through sourced facts and questions the author's own first reactions.
Local news coverage of Richmond, Virginia, spanning research, housing policy, development and high school sports. Reporting includes named sources, concrete figures and local context.
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