Captain Cook’s (Mis)adventures, Part 1

Reviewing the troublesome debate about the great mariner of imperial Britain. By Chris Lowry.

Canadians are a strange people

Tar sands and tarnished halos. What the world doesn't know

First Woman in Space Tells Tales

Tracking a Soviet cosmic star's latest trajectory —

Downriver along tow-paths and vineyard tracks

Tracing the course of a river from the Haute Vienne to the

Dietary and Aesthetic Laboratory, South Pole chapter

Cooking up a storm — and sipping a cocktail or two — at the

Picking up trash in the last wilderness

Visitors to Antarctica find themselves asking: “Do we

Brain Collecting

Behind the scenes at the Berlin Museum of Medical History

Out there in the heavens

As the latest images beam back from Pluto, our resident

The Heartache in Universities Today

The dire threat to the liberal arts — and a Harvard

In Praise of Brief Dramatic Forms

Passing time in the wild, Venus & Cupid are drawn to a

An expo looks at 'feeding the planet'

Herbert Wright explores the chasm between fast and slow

Staves Wrapping the World

A composer's score is performed in New York and Manchester

Dark Islands: New Poetry by Tom Chivers

One of our admired urban witnesses delves into traditional