Author: Monica Parker

The more we convince ourselves that we don’t have certain biases, the more likely we are to exhibit them.

As the means of creating the color black have changed, so have the subjects it represents.

The brilliant compromise between efficiency and ability in your head.

The confounding consistency of color categories.

The strange plumage of genetically mutated birds.

There is a waterfall in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. Maybe 12 feet high, it’s fairly modestly sized, though even a modest waterfall is quite a magical thing. And it’s here that chimpanzees come to dance. You can watch a video online, narrated by the great primatologist Jane Goodall, who, as with so many chimpanzee behaviors, […]

In the Australian outback, the future of drought has come early.

How Earth’s seas get around.