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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.
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Stories to Inspire Summer Fun

Some insights and tips to prepare for a summer of fun from JSTOR Daily.
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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.
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Pain, Prohibition, and #CursedImages

Well-researched stories from NPR, the Washington Post, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.