Why Saturn’s moon Titan is the best spot for an off-world colony
The cost of creating even a tiny extraterrestrial colony is far greater than the cost of fixing Earth’s problems
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Books
David Sax pens a nostalgia-evoking love letter to analog
Real things and why they matter
Caitlyn Jenner, Rachel Dolezal and instability in gender and race
Sociologist Rogers Brubaker examines transgender and transracial differences
Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa talk about music
Musical conversations between two of the most famous Japanese artists
A boy’s-eye view of the Vietnam War
A terrific graphic memoir from Marcelino Truong recalls events from his childhood uprooted to Saigon
Why Sigmund Freud still cannot be dismissed
A new and compelling biography about the Austrian psychoanalyst
How Loyalists brought peace, order and good government to Canada
Peter C. Newman shows that the United Empire Loyalists were not a homogenous group
A sci-fi saga about 19th-century tourists visiting the future
The novel is a caustically ironic look at the clash between technological change and messy human reality
How socializing led proto-humans to develop language and culture
Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar describes how the growing social brain changed humans
Why social activists should think like venture capitalists
In How Change Happens, Oxfam activist and LSE prof Duncan Green argues that social activists need to stop being preachy—and listen