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Pain, Prohibition, and #CursedImages

Well-researched stories from NPR, the Washington Post, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
An Omaha Beach landing craft on D-Day

D-Day, Cricket Gourds, and Modern Lesbians

Well-researched stories from Longreads, the New York Times, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Hospital Bills, Intersectionality, and Civilizational Collapse

Well-researched stories from The Conversation, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Chocolate Science, Boy Trees, and Robot Artists

Well-researched stories from Atlas Obscura, Slate, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A Diffusion MRI, also referred to as diffusion tensor imaging or DTI, of the human brain

Inception Machines, Weird Ice, and a Post-Roe World

Well-researched stories from Quanta, Wired, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Japanese Knotweed

Knotweed, Scary Sounds, and Mass Extinctions

Well-researched stories from NBC News, National Geographic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Pandas, Potlucks, and Planetary Cooling

Well-researched stories from The New Yorker, Quartz, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A dead whale being cleaned by whalers

Germs, Charisma, and the Legacy of Whaling

Well-researched stories from Vox, The Atlantic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Root Canals, Cargo Cults, and Laser Mapping Notre Dame

Well-researched stories from Topic, Scientific American, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
First image of a black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope. The object M87* is located at the heart of distant galaxy Messier 87.

Black Holes, Plastic Bags, and AI Diets

Well-researched stories from The Cut, Hakai Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.