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Arctic wolf

Wolves, Personal Choices, and Chemtrails

Well-researched stories from Sequencer, KFF Health News, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Claudia Zenteno, activist and environmental defender of the Xochimilco wetlands, sails a raft to a chinampa on April 17, 2021 in Xochimilco, Mexico.

Old Wet Farms, New Pain Meds, and New Chemistry

Well-researched stories from Mongabay, Ars Technica, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Dakota pipeline protestors

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples and Cultures

More and more states are choosing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day instead of Columbus Day.
Limestone horse with a rider, middle or 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE

Horse Riders, Climate Disease, and Legal Guardianship

Well-researched stories from The Conversation, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Jane Goodall watching her photographer husband, Baron Hugo Von Lawick, adjust a camera, to which a baboon is clinging, in the Gombe Reserve, east central Africa.

Jane Goodall

An intellectual powerhouse and dedicated conservationist, Goodall showed generations of humans how to engage with—and take care of—the natural world.
An astronaut exploring another world

Space Medicine, Peasant Rebellion, and Lots of Fish

Well-researched stories from Literary Hub, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A earth globe balancing on the edge of a stick, symbolizing climate crisis

Tipping Points, Cleaning the Air, and New Body Parts

Well-researched stories from Nautilus, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Photographs of Natasha Trethewey, Debora Kuan, Sam Sax, Louise Glück, Rebecca Lehmann, and Alex Dimitrov against a green background

10 Contemporary Pastoral Poems

Poems that reflect and reinterpret the pastoral tradition, by Louise Glück, Alex Dimitrov, Rebecca Lehmann, Sam Sax, Natasha Trethewey, and more.
Rebecca Lehmann

Rebecca Lehmann on Breaking the Rules of Poetry

An interview with writer and poet Rebecca Lehmann, who finds splendid things can follow when she stretches the rules of craft.
Circa 1911 photo by Frank Matsura

Western Photos, Dirty Gold, and Life on Mars

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Smithsonian Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Photograph: Two people dancing, photographed by David Schwartz, Albright College. Part of Albright College's Nicaragua Revolution: David Schwartz Collection

Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.20472290

Eight Collections Perfect for Hispanic Heritage Month

Freely available images and other primary source materials from the JSTOR Collections.
White Pines in Cathedral Woods, Intervale, White Mountains, N. H

What the Trees Are Telling Us

Markers of both environmental change and periods of stability, trees have a lot to tell us about nature—but also about humanity.
Cheese dairy master cutting a parmesan cheese wheel at the dairy

Parmesan, Nanotech, and Doing the Twist

Well-researched stories from Nursing Clio, Mongabay, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Jane Murfin with Strongheart, 1922

A Canine Star, Micrometeorites, and Superconsciousness

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian Magazine, Eos, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Employees of Ottenheimer on strike for poor treatment

Labor Day: A Celebration of Working in America

Our best stories about workers' rights, labor unions, and international movements to improve working conditions, from the factory to the farm.
Halftone collage with hand holding phone with screaming mouth on display in front of a crowded subway car

Rudeness, Prosecuting Miscarriage, and Wild Orbits

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Clockwise: Agha Shahid Ali, Elizabeth Bishop, William Logan, Paisley Rekdal, Charles Fort, Tim Seibles.

10 Villanelles by Modern and Contemporary Poets

Read these recursive, nineteen-line poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Paisley Rekdal, William Logan, Agha Shahid Ali, and more.
A high stack of books and a mobile phone

Online Reading, African Archaeology, and Inca Literacy

Well-researched stories from Undark, NPR, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Galen by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

We Love Libraries

Honoring the libraries and librarians that have shaped the way we live, learn, and fight.
Freshly-caught cod on board a fishing boat in the Baltic Sea.

Shrinking Fish, Earth’s Core, and Nagasaki

Well-researched stories from The Conversation, Literary Hub, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Simon Miles

Simon Miles on Superpowers and Serendipity

An interview with historian of US foreign policy and diplomacy Simon Miles, who finds that surprises in the archives can lead to the most compelling projects.
Close up of a male peacock displaying its stunning tail feathers

Peacock Feathers, Alien Life, and Pok-ta-Pok

Well-researched stories from Ars Technica, Nautilus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, Put in the Pillory

Humiliation, Headaches, and Narcissism

Well-researched stories from Undark, Yale Environment 360, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Source: L. Andronov et al / Nature Communications 2024

Visualizing Cells, Online Slang, and the Devil’s Bible

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Smithsonian Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Illustration: Time clocks pop out of a person’s open head.

Brain Time, Mountain Streams, and Rawls the Radical

Well-researched stories from Eos, Black Perspectives, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.