The Atlantic Out Loud

What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world

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The Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories.

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To a surprising degree, our political beliefs may derive from a specific aspect of our biological makeup: our propensity to feel physical revulsion.

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When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, Washington bet on the global spread of democratic capitalist values—and lost.

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There’s scant evidence that they’re effective. They can, however, be psychologically damaging—and they reflect a dismaying view of childhood.

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As the line between work and home blurs, office supplies attract sticky fingers.

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The director discusses the absence of men in his early life and his movies.

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We had scarcely discovered the parasite Felicola isidoroi when it vanished forever.

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In the car of the future, you may care more about how the driver’s seat swivels than how the engine purrs.

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He was a writer-artist ahead of his time, but Tim Burton, Lemony Snicket, and American culture have finally caught up.

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