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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not 'notable' enough. How do these poor souls take the news?"
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• Krista Stevens
"Why writers are the perfect target."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"James Bridle experiments with combining their practical carpentry skills and the abundant theoretical knowledge of AI to build a chair."
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• Seyward Darby
"Eurovision faces the music."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it."
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• Seyward Darby
"Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination."
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• Kristin Idaszak
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• Carolyn Wells
"I’ve been passing as male for six years, and I still have no idea how to do the Slappy Man-Hug."
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• Krista Stevens
"Palmeros are the gutsy, highly skilled farm workers who harvest your medjool dates. Now climate change, immigration raids, and a push for mechanization threaten their 6,000-year-old tradition."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"We have. It’s ruled by Stafford County teens."
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• Krista Stevens
"Forrest Welborn spent decades as a suspect in the infamous Austin murders. It all but destroyed his life. This year, he was finally exonerated. So why doesn’t he feel free?"
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"The works of the British art critic John Berger offer the antidote to our age of infinite scrolling."
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• Carolyn Wells
"Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"The burrito’s history as a symbol of resistance."
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• Seyward Darby
"The alleged perpetrators in the 'Cornell Seven' case were doxed. But so was the victim. And the person who doxed her. And people with no connection to the case at all."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"An encounter in the Christ-haunted South."
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• Carolyn Wells
"These women's abusive partners died by suicide. They felt both relief and grief. The NHS didn't know what to do with them."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Fishing for trouble in the Antarctic."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending."
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• Seyward Darby
By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before European colonizers arrived. M.R. O’Connor spends time with dendrochronologists, who study tree rings, and other experts to understand what they’re learning: Anthropologist Omer Stewart, who began documenting Native American burning practices in the nineteen-thirties . […]
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• Daniel Barnum
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Our reporting has shown how easily people—some with questionable backgrounds—have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hurdles to open a school are so low, could we do it?"
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"A rising subculture of kids says they don’t feel entirely human. Here’s what their parents are learning to do with that."
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• Seyward Darby
"As prisoners in Louisiana, we watch on as executions return to death row."
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• Krista Stevens
"He planned a multiyear trek through rivers, forests and snow in the Canadian wilderness. Only his sled dogs returned."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Nature writing after everyone stopped paying attention."
