Footnotes

In this season of man-made suffering in much of the world it’s easy to overlook the ways in which our species is armed and outfitted for friendship.

Alice Proujansky is a New York-based photographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, New York, and others.

Ethan Watters wrote about anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes and her long career documenting the illicit organ-trafficking trade ("The Organ Detective").

How to avoid overconfidence and recognize your own incompetence—from Dr. David Dunning himself.

When our story “Grandpa, I’m in Trouble” was posted on our website, it didn’t take long for a conversation to start over at Reddit.

Just after we went to press with Shirley Streshinsky’s article on the grandparent scam, the Senate held a hearing to examine the rise of telephone fraud.

This elegantly illustrated volume is a feast of maps and graphics about “humanity’s greatest invention.”

Wikipedia’s existence has always depended upon a surprisingly small group of volunteer editors/obsessives, and, increasingly, it’s them against the world.

If you’re an American between the ages of 45 and 70, your teachers likely subjected you to the "new math."

Just a few years ago, an "E book" was one that sat on library shelves between volumes of Dickens and Flaubert.