Three Hard Truths About California’s Fire Crisis Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive, unpopular measures. Claire Lehmann 12 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
How Santa Ana Winds Are Fuelling the Deadly fires in LA It’s very hard to extinguish a fire under these conditions. Jon Keeley 10 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
The Cass Effect A landmark report properly emphasises the application of science, not slogans, in establishing treatment protocols for trans-identified children. The Quillette Editorial Board 29 Apr 2024 · 14 min read
Peter Higgs (1929–2024): A Gentle Giant of Science We have lost an important scientist; we have also lost a wonderful man. Lawrence M. Krauss 14 Apr 2024 · 7 min read
Reflections on the Eclipse In the modern world, it is easy to forget our connection to celestial objects and how important that connection has been throughout human history. Lawrence M. Krauss 9 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
Of Monkeys and Men The Extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal Lawrence M. Krauss 23 Mar 2024 · 7 min read
Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for. Coel Hellier 13 Mar 2024 · 12 min read
Concordia University 'Decolonises' Engineering This will mark out the university as a place to avoid if you’re hoping for a serious education. Lawrence M. Krauss 6 Feb 2024 · 6 min read
Robots, Rats and Hoverchairs: Three Dystopian AI Fantasies Human beings need meaning, and a life in which all one’s needs were met by external agents would fail to provide it. Stewart Slater 5 Dec 2023 · 9 min read
Charles Darwin: The Best Scientist-Writer of All Time The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one. Lawrence M. Krauss 18 Sep 2023 · 9 min read
Academia’s Missing Men Men are disappearing from science and academia. The public perception is, however, exactly the opposite. Lawrence M. Krauss 11 Sep 2023 · 9 min read
Campus Puritans Come for an Astronomer—And His Byline By demanding that morality tests be imposed on scientific journal authorship, Geoff Marcy’s critics are creating a dangerous precedent. Lawrence M. Krauss 25 May 2023 · 13 min read
Svante Pääbo and the Human Story Not so long ago, he taught us, there were at least three distinct hominin lineages roaming large parts of the planet. The Quillette Editorial Board 6 Oct 2022 · 4 min read
Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Steven Pinker / Harvey Silverglate 1 Jul 2022 · 15 min read
When Animals Shed Their Wings Worker ants can sprout wings—but don’t. Ant and termite queens destroy theirs after mating. Many island birds evolve into flightlessness. Can evolution explain why? Richard Dawkins 5 May 2022 · 7 min read
