The Public Theater just celebrated opening night for the North American premiere of DEEP HISTORY, a solo show by Australian playwright and performer David Finnigan. An urgent and personal retelling of ...

At the end of 2019, in the English countryside, Australian playwright David Finnigan began writing a play about the six turning points that have brought us to this moment in time—our ecosystems ...

Daniel L. Smail is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: You’ve done cool interdisciplinary work bringing history and biology ...

Making history a science -- Nature's own antiquities -- Sketching big pictures -- Expanding time and history -- Bursting the limits of time -- Worlds before Adam -- Disturbing a consensus -- Human ...

On a shelf behind me is a naturally laminated cobble about the size of a door knob. It's a beauty, a sedimentary mudstone geologists call argillite, in which the "g" is pronounced as a "j." I plucked ...

I have a new book called The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains (Viking, 2019). It offers a novel perspective about how behavior and mind fit into ...

In his new book The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Consciousness, renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux takes a broad view of the history of life. He examines ...