When colleges shut down, people get hurt.

Almost 90 years ago, a young anthropologist was murdered in the field. The case still speaks volumes about sexual assault and how we explain it away.

A professor schemed to get a raise and win his department’s respect. Instead, he wrecked his career.

So many theories of laughter, so many chortles left unexplained.

College is when we first get drunk. Euripides’ The Bacchae can help us learn how to do it right.

A professor of sociology at Columbia reckons with her father’s relationship with Adolf Eichmann.

A profile of law professor Dan Kahan, “one of the best-known unknown academics in the country,” who wants to close the communication gap between scientists and the public.

An investigation into “Little Albert,” the famous test subject.

An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.

A Bosnian social psychologist who studies guilt and responsibility in the collective memory (and denial) of Sreberbica, which is “among the most scientifically documented mass killings in history.”

Research into mind-altering drugs is back.

On historian Ian Morris and his predictions for humanity’s future.

How humans evolve in the modern world.

Why psychologists love “priming.”

On being stalked in the age of the Internet.

A mother on her autistic child’s progression and regression.

The debate over autonomous lethal drones.

The scientific case for brain preservation and mind uploading.

Teaching Ted Kaczynski’s anti-technology ideas.

On a child diagnosed with autism:

The worst part was that I knew he sensed it, too. In the same way that I know when he wants vegetable puffs or puréed fruit by the subtle pitch of his cries, I could tell that he also perceived the change—and feared it. At night he was terrified to go to bed, needing to hold my fingers with one hand and touch my face with the other in order to get the few hours of sleep he managed. Every morning he was different. Another word was gone, another moment of eye contact was lost. He began to cry in a way that was untranslatable. The wails were not meant as messages to be decoded; they were terrified expressions of being beyond expression itself.

Fifteen years ago, Sherry Turkle developed a little crush on a robot named Cog. Since then, the MIT professor has been studying our ever-increasing emotional reliance on technology. She’s not optimistic about where we’re headed.