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From Syria to Ukraine, Anachronistic Dogs, and Caribou

Well-researched stories from Vox, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Utopias, Imperial Horrors, and Bug-Based Dyes

Well-researched stories from Psyche, The New Yorker and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Urban Evolution, Daily Bread, and Nuclear War

Well-researched stories from Knowable Magazine, Wired and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Bulldogs, Serial Killers, and Talking Fish

Well-researched stories from Aeon, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Mass Incarceration: A Syllabus

This selection of stories focuses on prison and mass incarceration in the US, which has the highest rate of imprisonment in the world.
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Cloud Seeding, Fake Fact-Checks, and Angela Davis at 78

Well-researched stories from Pro Publica, Smithsonian, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
The influential physicist, Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu in 1958

The Famous and Forgotten Women of STEM

The Editors have compiled their favorite pieces highlighting the many overlooked contributions of women in STEM.
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Sovereignty, Classroom Racism, and Eating Tea

Well-researched stories from the 19th, Slate, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Women Nerds!

This Women's History Month, take a minute to bow down to the women of Nerdlandia.
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Clever Skeletons, Seal Spies, and Paul Farmer

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian, Knowable, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and former Russian President Boris Yeltsin attend an inauguration ceremony for Putin May 7, 2000 in the Kremlin in Moscow.

Russia and the Soviet Union: A Syllabus of Background Readings

These readings from our archive provide context for the developing conflict in Ukraine.
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Life in the Cold, New Not-Normals, and Weird Numbers

Well-researched stories from The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A worker stands next to a snow machine making artificial snow outside one of the athletes villages for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics before the area closed to visitors, on January 2, 2022 in Chongli county, Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, northern China.

Fake Snow, Brain Maps, and Preschool Problems

Well-researched stories from Quanta, Grist, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Heartbreak, Book Bans, and Killer Whales

Well-researched stories from NPR, Black Perspectives, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Sleep Styles, West Elm Caleb, and Plant Relationships

Well-researched stories from Popular Science, Full Stack Economics, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Horse People, Malaria History, and Nuclear Waste

Well-researched stories from Nursing Clio, The Narwhal, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Uselessness, Fake Soup, and That One Song

Well-researched stories from Psyche, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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The Waste Age, E.O. Wilson, and January 6

Well-researched stories from Slate, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Death Predictions, Air Pollution, and the Calendar

Well-researched stories from Wired, Vox, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Sobriety is Next to Godliness

Teetotalers in the early British temperance movement signed temperance pledges like those in The Livesey Collection on JSTOR.
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“Where There’s Drink, There’s Danger”

These early temperance movement lantern slides from The Livesey Collection want you to abstain from drinking alcohol. Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year!

Why do we celebrate on the 1st of January? Do financial incentives help you stick to resolutions? And other burning questions.
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What We’re Reading 2021

Mini book reports from your favorite bloggers and editors here at JSTOR Daily.
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Our Most Popular Stories of 2021

This year, readers were into peanut butter and jelly, semi-conductors, bayonets, Victorian knitting manuals, plus the hard-working dogs of Medieval Europe.
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Best of Suggested Readings 2021

Well-researched stories about octopus dreams, lost soil, reproductive resistance, and more from publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.