The future of our civilization will be determined by the technologies we invent and the wisdom with which we deploy them. Because the future is so immense, the moral imperative to nudge it in a positive direction dwarfs all other concerns.

Now is the best time to be alive. Do most people, or even most scientists and technologists, recognize this? Is the current research enterprise well-suited to dealing with this awesome responsibility by drawing on the collective wisdom of humanity?

Drawing on their years of experience among animals around the world, best friends and coauthors Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery explore the minds, lives, intelligences, and mysteries of creatures domestic and wild—and the human connection with the rest of animate creation. Citing the latest scientific research and sharing their personal observations of lions, octopuses, dogs, rats, slugs, sharks, and others, these two nationally bestselling authors challenge the notion of human superiority.

Named one of “The Best New Books” of 2016 by People Magazine, Larry Olmsted’s Real Food, Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating & What You Can Do About It was a New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal Bestseller.

We may think we know what lies ahead as we age: a grim slide into depression, dementia, and dependence. But that’s just the party line, and author and activist Ashton Applewhite debunks it in spades.

Part monologue, part consciousness-raiser, her book This Chair Rocks dispels myths about late life, and proposes an alternative to worrying about getting old: wake up to the ageist messages that frame two thirds of our lives as decline, cheer up, and push back. It’s time to work together to make discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other prejudice.

What do family businesses, anonymous sperm donation, sports-related concussions, and evangelical megachurches have in common? All are “third rail” issues that novelist Ingrid Thoft explores in her mystery/thriller series starring the Boston private investigator, Fina Ludlow.

Toward the end of her life,Coretta Scott King fully shared her life story for the first time. Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds was the person to whom she chose to tell it. Reyolds shares this dramatic story with us as she discusses her latest book, My Life, My Love, My Legacy: The Story of Coretta Scott King.

The War on Cancer was launched more than four decades ago. We have learned an enormous amount about a disease that four decades ago was a mystery. This raises the question: has the explosion in knowledge about the origins of the disease led to corresponding advances in treatment?

“I wish to have it accomplished under pretext that may deceive both them and the Public,” the President wrote to his secretary.

Honeybees make decisions collectively – and democratically. In late spring and early summer, as a bee colony becomes overcrowded, a third of the colony stays behind and rears a new queen, while a swarm of thousands departs with the old queen to produce a daughter colony.