Articles
Mom Wasn’t Kidding When She Said Princeton Women Should Find Husbands Before They Graduate
Nope, that's not an April Fools joke. Alum Susan Patton has come under fire for her op-ed in the 'Daily Princetonian', which urged undergraduate women to find...
Never Mind Life on Distant Planets. What About Distant Moons?
Earthlings have never been terribly sophisticated cosmic tourists. Ask us which worlds we’d like most to visit and our answers are always the same: Mars!...
Why $50,000 May Be the (New) Happiness Tipping Point
A landmark 2010 Princeton University study showed that money really can buy happiness — up to a very specific point. The researchers (who...
The Daily Weather Really Is Getting Weirder
Human beings have notoriously bad memories about weather, like just about everything else. We tend to overemphasize extreme events and downplay the dull normal,...
Harvard Is No Longer the World's Best School — On One List, at Least
Harvard has toppled off its lofty perch. On Thursday, Times Higher Education (THE) published its annual list of the world's best colleges, and there's a new...
Photo Essays
The Hard, Steady Work of Creating Beauty: Ballet Dancers Rehearse, 1936
Few things, after three-quarters of a century, manage to stay the same. But any dancer — and specifically, any ballet dancer — perusing Alfred Eisenstaedt’s...
Seeking Art in Science
Each year an artistic competition calls on scientists at Princeton University to capture moments of beauty in their day-to-day researchText by Jennifer Pinkowski...
