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Matthew Wills
Matthew Wills, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
The invention of the gifted child
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.
Humans may be the most powerful evolutionary force on Earth
Without even realizing it, we’ve actually become pretty god-like in our powers.
The physicists who wanted to put an end to gravity
Roger Babson wanted a “partial insulator, reflector, or absorber of gravity” — something, anything, that would stop or dampen it.
Stonehenge came before the Druids (long, long before the Druids)
The clash of academic archaeology and what might be called folk archaeology comes into stark focus at Stonehenge.
What happened to the dream of the Pan-American highway?
The Pan-American Highway began a century ago with a vision of unfettered motor-vehicle access between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. What happened to the dream?
In search of Einstein’s brain
After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.