Why airborne farming hasn’t been cleared for take-off.

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King of Horror Stephen King celebrates his 70th birthday. Will he finally get the respect he deserves from academia and the culture industry?

Even three decades after “hysteria” was deleted from the DSM-III, some of the word’s diagnostic power obviously still remains.

What's an illegal alien? The idea that the most important question about immigrants is their legal status is a relatively new one.

Will cutting fewer forests, where tick hosts and their predators live, help curb Lyme disease? Scientists debate.

Early credit reporting companies urged people to “Treat their credit as a sacred trust” and argued that keeping a good credit record was a moral concern.

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The photographic pressure to curate our faces is inextricable from the online pressure to curate our lives; to present and perform.

Packrat nests, preserved by a combination of the chemistry of urine and the desert air, open a window into centuries of local climate change.