The Experiment

09/24/2026

Did you catch Ulli Lust’s () interview with Science magazine last week? In the piece, Lust talks about the many ways our perception of prehistoric peoples, especially women, has been largely incomplete for centuries, and how we might better understand the fascinating gender dynamics of the Stone and Ice Ages.

Read the piece in full via the link in our bio and at www.science.com, and get your copy of Early Man Was a Woman!
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09/17/2026

Our Shortest Histories span thousands of years of history in one accessible and engaging read, written by expert authors from around the globe. In our age of AI, Toby Walsh’s assessment of AI’s evolution—and potential for revolution—is essential reading.

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09/15/2026

This Is Fascism is out today. Called “an excellent read” by Timothy Snyder, political scientist Rosan Smits topples the strongly held conviction in the West that our established democracies are immune. Analyzing how fascism is normalized, how it’s evolved in contemporary politics, and what we can do to collectively stand up against it, this is as much a handbook as a call to action.

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09/15/2026

We're thrilled about this Science feature of our author Ulli Lust and her groundbreaking graphic novel, Early Man Was a Woman, which is available everywhere books are sold!

Check out the piece and get your copy by visiting the link in our profile.

In the popular imagination, the defining image of the Paleolithic era—a time period stretching from the appearance of the first humans to the end of the last ice age, during which early humans and our ancestors fashioned stone tools for a variety of purposes—might be male hunters chasing mammoths and woolly rhinos across frozen steppes of Eurasia. But prehistoric art paints a different picture: The vast majority depicts women, suggesting the prehistoric past operated under very different rules from Western societies today.

Austrian comic book artist Ulli Lust spent years reading everything she could find about ice age archaeology before starting her book, Early Man was a Woman (Die Frau als Mensch). An exploration of women’s underappreciated role in prehistory, the first volume was published in German in 2025. It won the prize for best German-language nonfiction book earlier this year, the first time a comic has ever won the award.

The first of three volumes have now come out in English translation. Science spoke with Lust about the challenges of accurately capturing the archaeological record in a comic book and why the Stone Age is synonymous with cave men and not cave women.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4A9ddM4

09/14/2026

Experiment author Jonn Elledge is always cooking up something new—his latest, A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions, is out this October—but his book A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders remains a stalwart favorite. Swipe through to read about Elledge’s favorite map and the lessons we can stand to learn from the fascinating history of territory, and find the full interview on The Experiment’s blog.

Preorder A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions and get your copy of A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders by visiting the link in our profile.
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09/11/2026

(Another!) giveaway: Snag a copy of The Shortest History of Reality by Geraint F. Lewis (with a foreword by Veritasium creator Derek Muller) and fall into a quantum realm of physics, philosophy, and the eternal quest to discover what’s “real.”

Enter on Goodreads at the link in our profile. Open to US and Canada residents only through 8/26.

09/10/2026

Choose an emoji, get a fall reading recommendation! Whether you want to learn how to spot the first signs of autumn or curious about the Roman history you're learning about in class, our list has something for every kind of fall reading list.

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09/09/2026

📣Giveaway📣 Get your hands on a copy of Jonn Elledge’s A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions, a collection of highly entertaining and seriously illuminating histories of the inventions that built our modern world, from street numbering to sewers.

Enter on Goodreads at the link in our profile. Open to US and Canada residents only through 8/26.

09/08/2026

Happy pub day to Seventy! In Ian Brown’s latest memoir, the acclaimed journalist asks the terrifying questions we all have about growing old, even when he doesn’t want to know the answers.

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