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A falling leaf

Eleven Poems for Fall

Cozy up to autumn with verse from Dylan Thomas, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Rita Dove, and more.
Scooters lying on a sidewalk

Amazon Fires, Hong Kong Money, and Dockless Scooters

Well-researched stories from Vice, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison, Mass Shootings, and Mothering

Well-researched stories from WBUR, Public Books, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
David Berman

David Berman

Three poems by writer and musician David Berman.
An elderly man sitting beside a lake

Dementia, Trauma, and a Weird Tumor

Well-researched stories from the Atlantic, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
a banana peel

Banana Peels, Chronic Lyme, and Presidential Immunity

Well-researched stories from the Cut, the Atlantic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Astronaut Karen Nyberg looks at Earth through a cupola on the ISS.

Space, Seaweed, and Self-Awareness

Well-researched stories from Quanta, the New Yorker, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A nuclear mushroom cloud

New Nukes, AI Researchers, and Women’s Soccer

Well-researched stories from Vice, Public Books, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Fireworks in a dark sky

TV Fireworks, Bare Feet, and Childish Professors

Well-researched stories from Scientific American, the Harvard Gazette, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
People wading in the water at the beach

Stories to Inspire Summer Fun

Some insights and tips to prepare for a summer of fun from JSTOR Daily.
A young girl using a cell phone while sitting on a couch.

Skull Spikes, Concentration Camps, and Reparations

Well-researched stories from Time, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A woman in pain, standing beside a window

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.
A man with his daughter paying a bill

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.
Rossia macrosoma, Stout Bobtail Squid

The Delicate Science-Art of the Blaschka Invertebrate Collection

The Cornell Collection of Blaschka Invertebrate Models includes hundreds of glass models of sea creatures, making it both a teaching tool and a metaphor.
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.
A giant panda eating bamboo

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.
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.
Four teeth on a yellow background

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.
A kitten on a bed

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.