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A devestating shot of plastic waste in the ocean. Water Pollution.
Suggested Readings

Eating Plastic, Improving Vision, and Making Movies

Well-researched stories from Knowable Magazine, Sapiens, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Hip Hop, Fire, and Fish Meal

Well-researched stories from Vox, Hakai Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Westin Bonaventure towers
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Los Angeles, Lions, and Looking for Happiness

Well-researched stories from Aeon, The New Yorker, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Rain Scent, Tricky Genes, and the Mysterious X

Well-researched stories from Quanta Magazine, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Cricket Farm
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Crickets, Forests, and the Pickle-on-a-Stick

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian Magazine, Public Books, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Turmeric in a glass jar, as seen from above
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Turmeric, Wrestling Spiders, and Early Christians

Well-researched stories from Undark, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Hand drawn illustration of a sidewalk
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Good Sidewalks, Bad Weather Forecasts, and Rogue Birds

Well-researched stories from Atlas Obscura, Literary Hub, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Breadfruit
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Breadfruit, Nuclear Fusion, and the Model T

Well-researched stories from Mongabay, Works in Progress, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Parthenogenesis, Medieval Whales, and Debating Science

Well-researched stories from Slate, Knowable Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Unidentified young soldier in 5th New Hampshire Infantry, between 1861 and 1865
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Civil War Boys, Survival Skills, and Rosemary’s Baby

Well-researched stories from Nursing Clio, Public Books, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A Black Molly
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Fish Personalities, Espresso, and Extreme Water Reuse

Well-researched stories from Knowable Magazine, Sapiens, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Hippopotamus sleep at Taronga Western Plains Zoo on November 06, 2021 in Dubbo, Australia. T
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Hippos, Flies, and Queer Love Stories

Well-researched stories from Literary Hub, Vox, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Potato Pancakes "Latke's" with Sour Cream and Apple Sauce
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Jewish Food, Brain Tech, and Mourning a Forest

Well-researched stories from Public Books, Perspectives on History, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Congolese park rangers conduct a combat patrol July 21, 2006 at Ishango in the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Violent Conservation, Deep-Sea Art, and Early Printing

Well-researched stories from Undark, Mongabay, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Photograph: A diving horse mid-dive with the rider clinging to its neck, c. 1955
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Diving Horses, Turing Machines, and Life with Germs

Well-researched stories from Atlas Obscura, Quanta Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Reading Lists

Artificial Intelligence: An AI-Generated Reading List

ChatGPT generated this annotated bibliography for us. Don't worry, we'll ask (and pay) a human to write one too.
Locusts that were roosting in trees overnight take flight in the morning on May 21, 2020 in Samburu County, Kenya
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Cannibal Locusts, Victorian Filth, and Mind Reading

Well-researched stories from Undark, The Walrus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.29887514
Shared Collections

South Asia Open Archives Hits a Million

The open-access South Asia Open Archives on JSTOR now offers more than one million pages of digitized primary source material.
Roundup

12 Poems by Asian American and Pacific Islander Poets

Poems by Asian American and Pacific Islander poets, including Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Marilyn Chin, Atsuro Riley, Kazim Ali and more.
The Great Mississippi Steamboat Race–From New Orleans to St. Louis, July 1870
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Steamboat Races, Mifepristone, and Harry Belafonte

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian Magazine, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Bailey Bass as Claudia , Jacob Anderson as Louis De Point Du Lac and Sam Reid as Lestat De Lioncourt - Interview with the Vampire _ Season 1, Gallery - Photo Credit: AMC
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Gay Vampires, Marie Curie, and Deep Sea Mining

Well-researched stories from Hakai Magazine, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Eight-port air sampler head by Glass Developments Ltd., London, 1971-1980
Education & Society

Object Lessons from the Modern Environmental Movement

This Earth Day, we're looking at the ominous slash beautiful material culture of the modern environmental movement.
Watercolor painting of the earth by Martin Eklund
Roundup

On Earth Day

Celebrate Earth Day with stories from JSTOR Daily.
From the cover of Credences, July 1975
Reveal Digital Collections

14 Poems from Little Magazines

Poems by Alice Notley, Fred Moten, C. D. Wright, Jean Valentine, Michael Burkard, and more.
HIMEJI, JAPAN - APRIL 02: Tourists take part in 'Hanami' or Flower-viewing parties under cherry blossom trees in full bloom at Himeji Castle ground on April 2, 2015 in Himeji, Japan. The Cherry blossom season begins in Okinawa in January and moves north through Feburary peaking in Kyoto and Tokyo at the end of March and lasting just over a week. (Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)
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Cherry Trees, the Anthropocene, and Black Elected Leaders

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Southern Spaces, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

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