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With the US government poised to declare the Ivory-billed Woodpecker extinct, scientists work to determine what counts as evidence of existence.

Zombie movies are scary fun, but they also help us examine our anxieties about contagious disease and unstoppable chaos.

We've got Netflix, AppleTV, YouTube, and Prime literally in the palms of our hands. Do conventional movie and television rating systems matter to us?

Researchers consistently observe that longshot horses are overvalued by bettors at the racetrack. Why are they willing to risk it all?

There was more than one violent altercation at the cemetery when one side of the family wanted to move a dead relative, and the other didn’t.

Emphasizing the isolation enforced by Lowcountry geography erases the agency of Gullah/Geechee communities in the preservation of African culture.

From Bernadette Mayer to Joan Mitchell. Tracing the path from the New York School poets to their painter friends.

Every limb of him had a language.

The breeding of race horses validated those aspiring to belong to an American elite while feeding into racist beliefs about genetic inheritance.