Recommended Summer Solstice Readings from Hippo Hippo Reads Staff Arts & Culture, Books Happy summer solstice, Hippo readers! What better way to celebrate our slide into the sticky days of midsummer by cracking open a new book? Here's what our staff and contributors are currently reading—and...
The Understated Affection of Fathers Kory Floyd Arts & Culture Men may not be from Mars, but – compared to women – they do communicate in very different ways. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the relationships of fathers and sons. Outwardly, many father...
The Young Pope and Our Responses to Decadence Glenn McLaren Arts & Culture In his 1995 book After the Future, Russian philosopher and Culturologist, Mikhail Epstein, discusses the tense relationship between civilization and culture. Drawing upon previous theorists of civilization,...
It’s Time to Take Nature to Task Jessica Martucci Arts & Culture, Gender Studies, Science & Medicine In March of this year, one of my respected colleagues and I published a short essay in Pediatrics in which we critiqued the use of “nature” in public health campaigns, specifically regarding breastfeeding...
Attitudes Toward Innovation, Part Two Paul Kirkham Arts & Culture This post is in response to Hippo’s call for academic, historical, critical, and/or cultural essays that our readers might possibly “have lying around.” Is that you? Email info@hipporeads.com for a...
Attitudes Toward Innovation, Part One Paul Kirkham Arts & Culture This post is in response to Hippo's call for academic, historical, critical, and/or cultural essays that our readers might possibly "have lying around." Is that you? Email info@hipporeads.com for a chance to...
The Pre-History of the Paleo Diet Agnes Arnold-Forster Arts & Culture Dr. Loren Cordain describes himself as the “world’s foremost authority on the evolutionary basis of diet and disease” and as “one of the world’s leading experts on the natural human diet of our Stone...
