Why can’t the people who produced the technology, which has already shown that a different world is possible, just do the things that would prevent extinction? By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Students and faculty across the country were punished for their reactions to the conservative activist’s murder. A recent graduate of Texas Tech’s law school is still trying to clear her name. By Benjamin Wofford
One in 10 Americans experiences migraine headaches, which can be incapacitating. But there may be a light on the other side of your blackout curtains. Currently, doctors diagnose migraine based on patient description and treat the headaches based on frequency—episodic or chronic (more than 15 days per month). Treatment decisions are “worse than trial and error,” clinical professor of neurology Robert Cowan told Stanford Medicine. “It’s darts in the dark.” What’s more, guidelines recommend preventative, daily medication only for people with chronic migraine. But including severity may improve treatment options. In the largest study to date to categorize migraine patients, Cowan and data analyst Jaiashre Sridhar used functional MRI data to identify two biological subtypes. One group of patients had more severe headaches—they tended to last longer and caused more bothersome symptoms (nausea, noise sensitivity, etc.).
Biblio File: What to Read Now — Autumn 2026
New releases on our shelves and in our bookbags.
In Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists’ Adventures into the Unknown(Sourcebooks), science journalist Roberta Kwok, ’00, witnesses the “messy middle” of science between researchers’ initial query and possible final discovery. The nine projects she investigates, from sex-role reversal in male guardian frogs to a quest to find an exomoon, depict the slow, frustrating, and focused work of scientists.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE:The 9.20.26 Issue features David Wallace-Wells on our age of perpetual climate disaster; Eve Fairbanks on a superintendent who rebuilt his devestated schools; Mark Chiusano on the New York City subway system and flooding; and more.
A former superintendent in Joplin, Mo., is trying to apply what he learned to other shattered districts — and reckoning with the toll of the disaster on his own life. By Eve Fairbanks
Before the Spanish conquest, the history of the Aztec Empire was recorded orally and with hieroglyphs. In danger of being lost or forgotten, Indigenous historians began to write it down.
In 1938 a sensational spy trial exposed a Nazi plot to seduce and blackmail US officers. Despite America’s technological might, counterintelligence had been slow on the uptake.
Willem de Kooning’s works on paper document his efforts to find ways of retaining both image and abstraction, depth and flatness.
Willem de Kooning Drawing an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, June 14–September 20, 2026, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 9, 2026–January 17, 2027
Charles Lamb’s camp, mischievous, melancholic alter ego, Elia, owes much to his sister, Mary, with whom he lived for forty years, absorbing her “rambling chat.”
Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume IV: Elia and The Last Essays of Elia edited by Gregory Dart
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