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

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General Education Has a Bad Rap

David Epstein

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

Amanda Ripley

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

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Death Is the Capital of Uruguay

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Where the Migrant Crisis Is Measured by the People Who Disappear

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

Carl Zimmer

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

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Too Often, Journalists Think Analytics Can Tell Them Everything About Their Audiences

Jacob L. Nelson

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What I Learned From the Adult Chickenpox Case That Landed Me in the Hospital

Tessa Miller

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The Stan Lee Story That Tore Apart Marvel Comics

Abraham Riesman

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What an Astrophysicist Sees in Basketball That You Don’t

Nick Greene

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What’s Missing When Electronics Ignore Our Sense of Touch

Sushma Subramanian

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“We Did 20 Minutes and Just Like That, We Were Famous”

Mark Harris

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Don’t Let Queen Latifah’s Acting Career Overshadow Her Rap Legacy

Clover Hope

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The American Fascists of the 1930s Who Foretold the Capitol Riot

Dale Maharidge

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At Best, Travel Bans to Stop Infectious Diseases Merely Delay the Inevitable

Charles Kenny

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How 9/11 Made Wikipedia What It Is Today

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How a New Wave of Innovators Is Redefining “Made in China”

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