Bad Pain, Good Parrots, and Better Sex Ed
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2030, Australia Ablaze, and Tricky Knots
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Best of Suggested Readings from 2019
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Editors’ Picks: What We’re Reading
The history of Native resistance, the philosophy of love, the medicalization of madness, color in fairy tales, and dinosaur bones.
Editors’ Picks: Sustainability and the Environment 2019
The environmental cost of cruise ships, the history of climate science, human fertilizer as waste, and other top stories about sustainability and the environment.
Living Bridges, Musical Resistance, and Latino Votes
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Our Best Stories of 2019
Tweety bird linguistics, tiny purses, Beowulf's monsters, and the evolution of beauty.
Carolina Words, Brexit Time, and Weird Ancient Art
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My Fair Lady, Solar Wind, and Baby Yoda
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Salamanders, Hong Kong, and the Power of Kindness
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Talk about This, Not That
Looking to avoid politics at the holiday dinner table? Food trivia, ground-up mummy pigment, and snake jaws ought to do the trick.
Thanksgiving, Vaping Fear, and Financial Climate Crisis
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An Early Review of On the Origin of Species
"Darwin openly and almost scornfully repudiates the whole doctrine of Final Causes. He finds no indication of design or purpose anywhere..."
When and Where Did Abraham Lincoln Write the Gettysburg Address?
Theories abound. Historian William H. Lambert considers the origin of the address and the mythology surrounding its composition.
Dementia, Cancer, and Adorable Wildlife
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Math, Virginity Tests, and Pad Thai
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Clean Brains, Fake Languages, and Scary Tech
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High Misdemeanors, Gaming Addiction, and Lots of Ghosts
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Suicide, Sectarianism, and Short Sleepers
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Oscar Wilde’s Pamphlet: “Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life”
Wilde's description is heart-wrenching, but that doesn't hold him back from the usual wit and drama that characterize his writing.
Noise, Xenophobia, and Viking Women
Well-researched stories from Wired, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Che Guevara
In 1964, 5 years after the end of the Cuban revolution, Che Guevara wrote for an academic journal. Read the Cuban leader in his own words.
An African Queen, Alien Signals, and Poison Eating
Well-researched stories from Longreads, The Atlantic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.