Marc Filippino

a tightrope walker in France

The tie between rationality and intelligence isn’t that strong

Education

You might be the smartest person in the room. But at the end of the day, are you the most rational?

Kara Miller meets with Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services patient Louisa Solano to talk about what’s on her iPod.

Can music improve your health?

Music
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at The Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, Sept. 20, 2017.

Why CEOs are becoming activists

Business
A rat's head rests as it is constricted in an opening in the bottom of a garbage can in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, Oct. 18, 2016.

To control rat populations, birth control may be more effective than poison

Environment
A house in Levittown, NY.

Levittown and the rise of the American suburb

Culture
bipartisanship

Is bipartisanship dead? Not in Alaska.

Conflict

Bipartisan cooperation has historically been a rarity in US politics, but Alaska is showing how it can be done.

gerrymandering

The political lines that divide us

Conflict

Can states change a system controlled by the people in power meant to keep them in power?

surf practice

Why practice rarely makes perfect

Culture

Dotting your i’s and crossing your t’s is one thing. But mathematician Eugenia Cheng says obsessing over perfection leads to a lot of wasted effort.