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These summer recommendations are great for anyone who is new to New York, is looking for great family activities, or just wants to explore New York City beyond the Upper East Side! Elizabeth Street Garden: If you are looking for… Read more: Summer Recommendations

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD   I first got wind of the hype for the Project Hail Mary (PHM) movie in January of this year, two months before its scheduled release date. The buzz was so promising that I bumped the novel… Read more: Cool Space Experiments? Have a Cute Alien Instead.

“ . . . But this number [the number of people killed in the Holocaust], like all the others, must be seen not as 5.7 million, which is an abstraction few of us can grasp, but as 5.7 million times… Read more: Un toro, unos fríjoles, y muchos mártires: three Spanish anti-war paintings

As a new New Yorker, it’s almost a rite of passage to lament how boring and homogenous your hometown is. For me, that place is Orange County, California. But to say that it is boring and homogenous glosses over its… Read more: Notes from the 91

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” is a familiar phrase with two interpretations: actions can lead to unforeseen harm, and good intentions are worthless without proper execution. It is not a phrase that I would typically associate… Read more: Diversity Under Pressure Need Institutional Actions Rather Than Statements

In the labs at The Rockefeller University, scientists’ attention is turned to the microscale as they investigate the fundamental mechanisms of life and disease. At the Lewis Thomas Prize Lecture, held at Rockefeller this spring, astronomer Chris Impey asked the… Read more: Lewis Thomas Prize Lecture: Method and Marvel in Science

If you happened to peer down into the Collaborative Research Center basement on a chilly Thursday evening this past winter, you might have seen clusters of scientists hard at work at the tables. But instead of discussing posters or a… Read more: “Give Back Through Arts and Craft”: A Creative Community-Building Initiative

When thinking of the most popular animals used in scientific research, most people would not imagine an insect. Yet these underappreciated creatures are an integral part of many modern scientific discoveries. Research on insects has established foundational tenets of genetics,… Read more: The Evolution of Insect Research

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (non-fiction) The line between humans and nature is beautifully blurred in Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian’s Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature. Kaishian’s training as a mycologist and her lifelong… Read more: Winter 2026 Book Reviews

The flowers of Manhattan kept me sane during the pandemic. Over the 5 months of the lockdown and gradual re-opening of New York City, they were my substitute for company, and I enjoyed myself (as much as one could during… Read more: Looking for Faces in Flowers During the Pandemic

A New Yorker presents and rates seven of their most salient experiences, in no particular order. They call it the city that never sleeps, call it high-energy, say it grows and even eats people alive. Well, as a near-living entity,… Read more: Making Scents of New York City

When ChatGPT was first made public, I amused myself by asking it to combine the styles of disparate authors. I had just finished reading Ficciones, so I asked ChatGPT to rewrite popular films in Borges’s cerebral voice. The mental image… Read more: Borges’s Eleven

“I don’t know how to describe my work, because it’s not always the same thing. It’s like asking somebody, asking Miles [Davis], “How does your horn sound?” I don’t think he could really tell you why he plays this at… Read more: Basquiat: A Griot and His Skulls

It is 9:48 p.m. on June 25, and I am at Fairbanks International Airport. The airport is bright and spacious, much as Alaska itself had been promised to be, and as I struggle to stay awake while waiting to board,… Read more: Bear With Me: A Dispatch From My Photography Trip to Alaska

Would you continue pursuing scientific curiosity if you had to constantly fight for your place at the bench? What if it were highly likely that your work would be overlooked, minimized, or even written out of history? For many women… Read more: Working Towards Gender Equity in Academic Science Requires Addressing Systemic Barriers

I have spent more of my life in a ballet studio than in a traditional classroom, let alone a laboratory. From a young age, I dreamed of a career as a ballet dancer, and ballet consumed my day-to-day life. I… Read more: From Barre to Bench: When Art and Science Converge