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Social Drama, China Relations, and a Tree of Blood

Well-researched stories from Slate, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Bees’ Thoughts, Disappearing Bugs, and Giant Snails

Well-researched stories from The Boston Globe, Pacific Standard, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Digestion, Hangovers, and Sinister Magic

Well-researched stories from Slate, Public Books, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Wildfire, Stopping Suicide, and Marshmallow-Topped Casserole

Well-researched stories from Wired, Quartz, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Real Placebos, Brutal Progress, and Paleolithic Myths

Well-researched stories from Longreads, The Atlantic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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100 Years of Fox News

When it began as Fox-Movietone News, the company was known for appealing to viewer's tastes by leaving out upsetting news, including the rise of fascism.
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Moms United, Caribbean Slavers, and Powerful Bacteria

Well-researched stories from Harvard Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Anti-Semitism, Gender Science, and Lavender

Well-researched stories from Wired, Smithsonian Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Human Rights, Coffee Rust, and Dead Mammals

Well-researched stories from The Conversation, 99 Percent Invisible, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Angry Women, Captive Jaguars, and Brainy Catholics

Well-researched stories from the New Yorker, Pacific Standard Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.