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Street Shrines, Bug Photos, and Revolutionary Women

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Life, Reality, and Eating Plastic

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Brain Mapping, Blindness, and a Mystery in a Cave

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Breakdancing, Animal Pandemic, and Cutting-Edge Steel

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Helpful Vultures, Night Skies, and Pakistani Activists

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Olympic Tech, Emotional Dogs, and Atlantic Currents

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The Magical Furniture of David Roentgen

Cabinetmaker to Marie Antoinette, Roentgen designed “surprise furniture,” bureaus and desks that appeared to magically transform at the push of a button.
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Greening Deserts, Productive Dialogue, and Garbage

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Animal Physics, Storm-Chasing, and Big Meat

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Windmills, Arabic, and an Environmental Victory

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