Burkhard Bilger

No diet has been more obsessively studied, more fiercely controlled, or more anxiously stage-managed than baby food. Yet we still get it wrong, Burkhard Bilger writes.

Burkhard Bilger attends a session with Gabriele Baring where Germans address their family histories and inherited trauma from the Second World War.

Burkhard Bilger on rodeo kids. Bull riding is the most dangerous organized sport in the world, but the kids at the Camp of Champions can’t wait to compete.

Burkhard Bilger writes about the enduring allure of Mars, and the Earthlings who theorized about the red planet through the years.

Burkhard Bilger writes on how global warming is causing the world’s deserts to grow, and how reforestation schemes like the Great Green Wall may help.

In Charleston, a quest to revive authentic Southern cooking.

Burkhard Bilger on David Eagleman, a professor of neuroscience who became obsessed with studying the brain’s biological clocks after a near-fatal childhood accident.

The far-flung adventures of a tugboating family.

The quest for a stove that can save the world.

Burkhard Bilger on the Bryan twins, Bob and Mike, who are as close as tennis may get to a genetically engineered doubles team.

Hunting venomous species in the basements of Los Angeles.

Burkhard Bilger writes about Joe Nickell, who is perhaps the country’s foremost paranormal investigator and debunker of false phenomena.