Next Reads

Most of us think we’re good listeners, but we’re wrong — and it’s ruining our relationships.

In this excerpt from “Agents of Change,” Christina Hillsberg tells the story of Martha “Marti” Peterson, the first female case officer stationed in Soviet Moscow.

In “The Gift of Not Belonging,” Rami Kaminski explains why group consensus may hinder the original thinkers who help advance society.

In “The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs,” Riley Black reveals the bold mammals that thrived in the Age of Reptiles.

In “Raising AI,” De Kai argues that today’s AIs are already more like us than we think they are.

English could settle into a state of “diglossia” where a gulf exists between the written form and its spoken varieties, but the two are bound into a single tongue.

From medieval myths to Shakespeare’s plays and modern cinema, British culture kept the Roman Empire alive long after its fall.

Nurture your passions instead.

In this preview from “The Saucerian,” author Gabriel Mckee explains how the combination of fantastical stories and obscure bureaucracy launched the “space age of the imagination.”

If an asteroid hadn’t killed off the dinosaurs, humans would almost certainly have never walked the Earth.

“Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language.”

The first in a series of short stories by the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author that inspired the cult hit “Pantheon.”

In his book, “Birds, Sex and Beauty,” Matt Ridley explores why learning isn’t always nature versus nurture.

“Personality isn’t based on what we say we’ll do. It’s rooted in what we actually do, which becomes what we think about.”

Cognitive neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explores the differences, and similarities, of how AI and humans make meaning of the world.

When plans fall apart, adaptability can build something better.

Migration statistics should be regarded with wariness as they are difficult to analyze properly and easily manipulated for political gain.

From King Midas to Gordon Gekko, humanity has struggled to grasp greed’s true nature.