"An ambitious young couple, a multimillion-dollar swindle and the sting that brought them down."
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• Carolyn Wells
Worm Munch Matters
"The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them."
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Bucking Expectations: A Conversation with Rachel Hartigan
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
"A new book, 'Little Blue Dot,' by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are."
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• Carolyn Wells
The Great Romance Slump
"Why are so few young people finding love?"
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Recommending stories from Emi Nietfeld, Brendan Borrell, Boyce Upholt, Fernando Pinho, and Vann R. Newkirk II.
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• Carolyn Wells
The Ferry Boat Children
"For the children of south Mull, secondary school means leaving home age eleven. Their parents' silence was never consent."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Thank This Retired Projectionist for Those 3 a.m. Odyssey 70-mm. Imax Showings
"A Tennessee native and longtime film projectionist who first started working in Imax theaters in the ’90s, Caldwell has become integral to Imax’s 70-mm. rollouts even as he considers himself mostly retired."
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• Seyward Darby
Whose Babies Are These?
"A Chinese man hired a Florida surrogate, then didn’t pick up his kids, sparking a custody battle that could upend the industry."
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Rachel Aviv: Mother and Daughter
"An interview with the author of 'Strangers to Ourselves'—and now, 'You Won’t Get Free of It.'"
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• Elizabeth Blackwell
Here’s the Scoop: A Reading List on Ice Cream
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Parting Shot
"Stormy Morse lost two partners to gun suicide. Then the NRA came to collect."
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16 Hours in an Oakland Dive Bar
"Very few Oakland establishments open before noon. Club 2101 in Dimond is one of them. For patrons, it’s a second home."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Moment, Expand
"40 notes on Rob Reiner and Stand By Me."
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• Sam Roberts
Speaking for the Dead
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Mister Anthony
"Mister Anthony could be my grandfather, if my grandfather, a retired Memphis city bus driver, was still alive, still driving strangers from one stop to another."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
How I Became the Villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Colossal Biosciences Said It Cloned Red Wolves. Is It for Real?
"The red wolf has long been a contentious species. The debate over its preservation got even messier last year, when Colossal said it had cloned the animal."
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War stories, new colors, and the joy in getting hands on in art and gardening.
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• Carolyn Wells
How War Has Redefined Marriage in Gaza
"Celebrating the bond between two lives is a declaration that life itself, however diminished, is still worth living."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
What Would It Mean to See a New Color?
"Olo can be described as the 'greenest green,' though it can never be captured by a camera. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision."
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Secrets of the Atomic City
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Six Teenagers, a Brutal Murder and the Story They Couldn’t Take Back
"In 2002, a group of friends from North Carolina told a story that ruined all their lives. What if it wasn’t true?"
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Missing Pages
"Sixty years after the Cultural Revolution began, a writer looks back to her childhood in Beijing during its peak, and the banned books that sustained her through the tumult."
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A Fatal Reaction
"A cutting-edge gene-editing trial in China went disastrously wrong. A family wants accountability."
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‘We Were Simply Animals’
"What happens to the disappeared in Mexico’s narco-slavery camps."
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Magical Mystery Toads
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How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network into a Tool for Stalking
"Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems."
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Days Disrupted
"Across the world, the Iran war is reshaping everyday life."
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Who Ya Gonna Call? Scam Busters!
"How a team of sleuths reportedly tracked down the Brad Pitt impersonators who cyber-scammed a middle-aged Frenchwoman out of her life’s savings."