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What Could Thoreau Teach Me, a Pakistani American Woman?

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Drew Magary

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How a Genius Fashion Invention Freed Midcentury Women Like Lucille Ball to Be Pregnant in Public

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The School That Has to Decide Between a Soccer Field and Wi-Fi

Stephen Kurczy

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Why Weren’t Cars Electric From the Start?

Tom Standage

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Where Would We Be Without the Paper Punch Card?

Caleb Scharf

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The Number That Becomes More Amazing the More You Study It

Jordan Ellenberg

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The Famous Minority Report Gesture Technology Could Help People Think More Intelligently

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June 08, 2021 9:00 AM

The Day the Dream of Democracy Died in Hong Kong

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May 31, 2021 9:00 AM

John Green Reviews the Internet (Mixed)

John Green

May 31, 2021 5:50 AM

The Worst COVID Prediction Model Was Great at Projecting Cattle Disease in the 1800s

Jordan Ellenberg

May 26, 2021 2:36 PM

The 1980s Tear-Jerker That Helped My Mother and Me Talk, Finally, About My Dad

Michael Koresky

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What Makes Human Brains Special?

Stephen M. Fleming

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General Education Has a Bad Rap

David Epstein

April 27, 2021 5:40 AM

How a Toxic Battle Over Wolves in Europe Became a Productive Conversation

Amanda Ripley

April 21, 2021 12:52 PM

What Happened When the U.S. Government Tried to Make the Immigration System Digital

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April 16, 2021 10:21 AM

Death Is the Capital of Uruguay

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Where the Migrant Crisis Is Measured by the People Who Disappear

Ty McCormick

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Lab-Grown Brain Organoids Aren’t Alive. But They’re Not Not Alive, Either.

Carl Zimmer

March 17, 2021 11:18 AM

Nicki Minaj Is Hip-Hop’s Greatest Shape-Shifter

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