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Earlier this month, Faith Kearns brought you the Art and Science of Waiting, which has become one of Hippo’s top posts in 2015. The post features the research of Kate Sweeny, an associate professor of...

Interview by Ben Winterhalter When Dr. Steve Kay, the dean of USC Dornsife, finished his graduate work on genetics at UK’s University of Bristol, there were three words on his mind: “get to...

This piece is published in partnership with China Focus, a student run blog sponsored by the 21st Century China Program at UC San Diego. You asked; New Yorker China correspondent Evan Osnos...

Congratulations to Hippo contributor Philip Freeman, M.D. whose post Lie Down on the Couch, Virtually was named one of the best reads from around the web by BBC Future. Hippo is honored to be featured...

As business leaders and politicians alike have proclaimed, this may be China’s century. Which is why we at Hippo have invited American journalist Evan Osnos, who witnessed China’s transformation firsthand as The New Yorker’s China Correspondent, to be our next Ask Me Anything guest.

Congrats to Hippo contributor Celeste Ng. Her new novel, a literary thriller, Everything I Never Told You (Penguin Press), was named the 2014 Best Book of the Year by Amazon and made The New York...

Hippo contributor and Divest Harvard member Chloe Maxmin was a guest on the Bill Maher show in October. See her fabulous backstage interview here!  The background: On November 19, 2014, seven Harvard...