Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 11:21 a.m.

It began, as many revolutions do, not with a bang, but with a quiet squeak. In the 19th century, inside his study at Down House…

Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 11:10 a.m.

For millions of years, our skeleton was a masterpiece of motion. The human spine, with its elegant, double S-curve, is not a de…

Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 10:40 a.m.

Charles Darwin, in the quiet sanctum of his study, made a small but revolutionary modification to his armchair. Frustrated by t…

Published on Feb. 1, 2024, 7:04 p.m.

We are a species built for movement, yet we have engineered a world that demands stillness. We sit to work, to play, to sociali…

Published on Feb. 1, 2024, 6:46 p.m.

We live in an era defined by the chair. For many of us, it is a cage—a softly upholstered prison where we spend a third or more…

Published on Feb. 1, 2024, 6:34 p.m.

Our bodies, sculpted by millennia of movement, now spend much of their lives in a state of profound stillness. We hunt for dead…

Published on Feb. 3, 2024, 5:30 p.m.

In the 19th century, Charles Darwin, beset by illness and deep in thought, jury-rigged a set of castors to the bottom of his ar…

Published on Feb. 3, 2024, 12:32 p.m.

We live in a cage of our own making. It’s a comfortable cage, often climate-controlled, with a view of a glowing screen. Its th…

Published on Feb. 2, 2024, 12:15 p.m.

Our modern lives are built upon a paradox: in a world of constant motion, our bodies are increasingly still. We sit for work, f…

Published on Feb. 1, 2024, 10:07 a.m.

Our bodies are primal blueprints, masterpieces of evolution designed for motion. For millennia, the human form was defined by t…