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Total Solar Eclipse, 2024 Edition

A total solar eclipse crosses North America on Monday, April 8. Be prepared!
Bayaka people in the Dzanga Sangha Ndoki reserve, Central African Republic rainforest

Mobile People, Asteroid Fighters, and Frank Oppenheimer

Well-researched stories from Nautilus, Knowable Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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A Night at the Oscars

All (or at least a lot) of what you need to know before going to this year’s Academy Awards watch party.
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Shogun, Evolving Eyes, and a Feast of Drunkenness

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian Magazine, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Celebrating Women’s History Month

Celebrate Women's History Month all March with JSTOR Daily. We hope you'll find the stories below, and the scholarship they include in full, a valuable resource for classroom or leisure reading.
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Woodchucks, Silk, and American Divorce

Well-researched stories from ARTNews, Nautilus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
People wait for trains on the platform at Kyiv train station on February 28, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ukraine, Russia, and the West: A Background Reading List

Research reports and scholarly articles on the history of the Ukraine-Russia conflicts of the past and possible paths for peace.
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From Jamaica to the World: Contextualizing Bob Marley

Bob Marley’s life and music intersected with Pan-Africanism, the Rastafari movement, and post-colonial politics around the globe.
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Calendars, Environmental DNA, and Unique Writing

Well-researched stories from Undark, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Wormholes, Baitfish, and Neo-Medievalism

Well-researched stories from Slate, Literary Hub, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Endangered Islands, Parking Problems, and Feeling Awe

Well-researched stories from Hakai Magazine, Eos, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Celebrating Black History Month

JSTOR Daily editors pick their favorite stories for Black History Month.
The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The image was made from 37 individual frames with a total exposure time of about 30 minutes, taken in the early morning hours. The Moon is just rising and the zodiacal light shines above it, while the Milky Way stretches across the sky opposite the observatory. The open telescope domes of the world’s most advanced ground-based astronomical observatory are all visible in the image: the four smaller 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes that can be used together in the interferometric mode, and the four giant 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes. To the right in the image and below the arc of the Milky Way, two of our galactic neighbours, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, can be seen. Links Extended to 360 x 180 degrees (with black) version of this image

Seeking Life, Boxing Parkinson’s, and Killing ChatGPT

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Can Intellectual Humility Save Us from Ourselves?

Intellectual humility is defined as a willingness to admit you’re wrong. It could be just the idea for our self-righteous times.
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What Is Intellectual Humility?

Almost all of us are far more confident in ourselves than we probably should be. If we humbly admit this, does it improve how we deal with conflict?

Intellectual Humility: Foundations and Key Concepts

Research about intellectual humility has exploded in the past decade. Psychologist Elizabeth Krumrei-Mancuso offers an annotated bibliography of key texts.
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Second Opinions: On Intellectual Humility and Medicine

What happens when doctors admit they don't know everything?
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What if AI Operated with Intellectual Humility?

In the race between humans and machines, imagine a future in which everyone and everything wins.

Doing Math with Intellectual Humility

Math class is an opportunity to teach students both how to use conjecture to arrive at knowledge and how to learn from the logic of peers.
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Drinking with Intellectual Humility

What happens when you mix alcohol with intellectual humility? A philosopher asks a writer and former bartender to share her thoughts.
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Come Let Us Argue: Faith and Intellectual Humility

Can belief in the divine endure in an individual who possesses an openness to being wrong? How do doubt and faith co-exist among the religious?
Full-body forensic reconstruction of a woolly dog based on a 160-year-old pelt in the Smithsonian’s collection as well as archaeological remains.

Woolly Dogs, Butterflies, and Brain Injuries

Well-researched stories from Yale Environment 360, Literary Hub, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Migraines, Genghis Khan’s World, and Indian Dance

Well-researched stories from Black Perspectives, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Monster Worms, Modern Sufis, and the Origins of Life

Well-researched stories from Vox, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Ape Memories, Hearing Aids, and The Color Purple

Well-researched stories from Undark, OpenMind Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.