Science & Nature
Camels Don’t Store Water in Their Humps
The story almost everyone learned in school is wrong. What the hump actually does, and what a camel can do without water, is stranger than the myth.
By Maya Ellison
Field Notes
Explainers
Who Has Nuclear Weapons, and How Do We Know?
Nine countries hold roughly 12,000 warheads between them. Most of what the public knows comes from a handful of researchers counting carefully from the outside.
By James Okoro
Science & Nature
Two Porcupines, an Ocean Apart
One lives in trees and eats bark. The other digs burrows and rattles its tail like a warning bell. They look alike, but they are barely related.
Science & Nature
Llamas, Alpacas and Their Camel Cousins
Llamas are camels, more or less. The family started in North America, spread to two continents and left relatives on both sides of the world.
The Review
Books
Review: I Hate You, Kelly Donahue by Mark Svartz
A handwritten, sticky-noted journal of one man's absurd office feud. It reads in under an hour, and it is more about a crush than a grudge.
Culture
Who Knows Your Name in Boston?
Cheers promised a city where everybody knows your name. Augustana sang about going where no one does. Both songs might be right.
Culture
How to Become a Prolific Writer
Asimov, Trollope and Simenon wrote at astonishing rates. Their methods were less about genius than about showing up at the same hour every day.
From the Archive
Dispelling Myths About Camels
They do not spit the way people do, the hump is not a water tank, and nobody discovered them in 1967. A guide to the camel stories that refuse to die.
By Maya Ellison
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Profiles
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Jane Goodall, as quoted by the Jane Goodall Institute
Jane Goodall’s Long Walk in the Forest
She arrived at Gombe in 1960 with a notebook and binoculars. Over 65 years she changed what science knew about chimpanzees, and what the public believed it could do for them.
Read the profileBusiness
CSTS Officially Launches Global Entertainment Brand PremierX™ with Successful Debut at New York’s Pier 17
Nov 11, 2026
The Asus Eee PC 2G Surf and the Rise and Fall of the Netbook
Nov 9, 2026
Business School for an Entrepreneur: MBA vs. Part-Time MBA vs. EMBA
Nov 5, 2026
The Evolution of Property, From Land to Ideas
Oct 26, 2026
Finance
Why You Have More Than One Credit Score
Oct 30, 2026
The Rule of 72, the Shortcut Every Saver Should Know
Sep 26, 2026
A Practical Guide to Buying a Used Car
Sep 18, 2026
V-Day: To Bling or Not to Bling
Sep 18, 2026
Commentary
A Quiet Threat
We assume the quiet person in the room is shy and harmless. Sometimes they are bored, sometimes they are thinking, and sometimes they are a ninja.
Consider the Lobster, and the Tourist
David Foster Wallace went to a lobster festival for a food magazine and came back with questions about pain and mass tourism. Both still apply.
Let the Kids Be Bored
We have engineered boredom out of childhood, one screen at a time. Researchers suggest that may be a loss, because boredom is often where imagination starts.
