Let’s face it: the phrase “toxic masculinity” gets thrown around a lot these days. While it’s important to call out genuinely harmful behaviors, sometimes the conversation goes too far, labeling all ...

Hiking a glacier with my family and dog, Lovie, I was thinking about the nature of instincts and how both humans and dogs share them—how they help us get along in the world, not having to ponder or ...

How exactly does a newly-hatched spider weave a perfect web that is characteristic of his or her species—without ever even having seen such a web, let alone having been trained to spin one? How do ...