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Black Spartacus, Great Books, and bell hooks

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Floating Cities, Trans History, and Jazz in Ghana

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Mind-Reading, New Dino, and Enslaved Women’s Resistance

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Drinking Women, Scientific Art, and Torturing Trees

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Soul City, History in Fiction, and Life on the Thames

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Black Brooklyn, Fascinating Fungi, and a New AI

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Whale Poop, Dogs without Humans, and Methane Danger

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Condor Parthenogenesis, Smartphones, and Whale Talk

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A New History, Fabulous Viruses, and Future Creatures

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Upsides of Horror, Census Trouble, and Unmanly Drinking

Well-researched stories from Aeon, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.