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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.
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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.
John Ashbery by Steve Pyke

Poetry from Independent Voices

Reveal Digital's open access "Independent Voices" collection includes many digitized literary magazines. Those interested in poetry should take note.
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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.
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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.
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Cat Names, Doubt Machines, and Christianity’s Future

Well-researched stories from Scientific American, Fivethirtyeight, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Border Walls, Trigger Warnings, and Tantra

Well-researched stories from Scroll.in, the Washington Post, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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CRISPR Cows, Unscientific Medicine, and New Nuclear Energy

Well-researched stories from Wired, Pacific Standard, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
University of Texas at Austin

Admissions Cheating, Fake Voices, and Inuit Parenting

Well-researched stories from NPR, The Cut, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Arctic Ice, Dead Whales, and Cycles of Abuse

Well-researched stories from Aeon, Slate, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Poster for Women's Day, March 8, 1914, demanding voting rights for women.

The Socialist Origins of International Women’s Day

Why is International Women's Day on March 8th? The answer is much more complicated than you might think.
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Cloud Loss, Nuclear War, and Trauma

Well-researched stories from Quanta, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Potato Words, Flaming Grapes, and Desegregation

Well-researched stories from Massive Science, Vox, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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A Mars Miracle, Medical Racism, and Murderous Humans

Well-researched stories from The New Yorker, Pens and Needles, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Piggy bank

Wealth Taxes, Embodied Words, and Ancient Comedy

Well-researched stories from Aeon, Public Books, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Ice skaters in the Netherlands

Ice, Measles, and Genocide

Well-researched stories from BBC, Nature, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A squirrel in the snow

Cold Animals, Venezuelan Crisis, and Rethinking Health

Well-researched stories from The Conversation, The Washington Post, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Asian Families, the RAND Book, and Science Fiction

New books and scholarship from Stanford University Press, University of Minnesota, and MIT Press.
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Suicide, Spirits, and Sexy Voices

Well-researched stories from The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Editors’ Picks 2018: Sustainability and the Environment

Wildfires in California, floods in Venice, robot-bees, and cows that mitigate climate change.
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Unsafe Food, Masculinity, and the Nature of Beauty

Well-researched stories from The Verge, Tufts Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Animal Actors, Kids’ Jokes, and Pickup Artists

Well-researched stories from Vox, NPR, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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The Best of Suggested Readings from 2018

Every week we compile well-researched stories that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. These were the ones you clicked on most in 2018!
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Austen Fans, Modern Belief, and Environmental Politics

New books and scholarship from Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, and the University Press of Colorado.