"He was Queen’s flamboyant frontman. She was his shy girlfriend, dreaming of marriage until they both realised he preferred men."
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• Carolyn Wells
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Welcome to the Age of AI Crime and Punishment
"America’s legal system is already grappling with cases where chatbots acted as lawyers and witnesses, generated the evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting. Who will be liable now that some AI agents are doing crimes all on their own?"
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• Seyward Darby
Ballroom Blitz
"Trump’s obsessive bid for architectural immortality is barreling toward completion."
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• Krista Stevens
Hurricane Helene Washed His Wife Away From Their Mobile Home. Now New Residents Live on the Same Land.
"Residents of a riverfront trailer park have lost homes and loved ones in multiple storms. A policy gap puts mobile home residents in harm’s way again and again."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
This Bottle of Dijon Mustard from Costco is Crazy Hot. A Months-Long Investigation Rrevealed the Surprising Reason Why.
"The search for an answer took us to a mustard dynasty in France, a Hamilton mustard mill and Palliser’s Triangle."
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The Thief Who Wanted to Save the World
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• Carolyn Wells
On Tour with the Eclipse Chasers
"They spend their lives seeking seconds of darkness."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
The “Conformation Show” and the Pursuit of the Ideal Dog
"Just inside the Farm Bureau Center, the doormats were already covered in fur."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Going Home with Wendell Berry
"The writer and farmer on local knowledge, embracing limits, and the exploitation of rural America."
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• Seyward Darby
The Anatomy of a Journalism Scandal
"The the first time 'The New York Times' had lost a defamation case in over half a century."
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• Krista Stevens
The 17 Minutes That Changed America
"For the briefest of windows, September 11, 2001, wasn’t yet a calamity but merely a strange accident. And that pivotal span forever altered the way we look at disasters, at the sky, and at one another."
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• Seyward Darby
A Mississippi Death Penalty Jury Was Seated. With One Black Juror.
"The jury sentenced Pitchford to death."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Memory Architecture
"Devotion to a Florida home."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
What Happens When a Kid’s Robot Best Friend Dies?
"AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?"
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• Brian Laidlaw
Going Up and Going In
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Who Can Solve Gerhard Berger’s Quiz?
"The former Ferrari driver lent his name to the strangest F1 video game in history. Or did he?"
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Why We Like Things
"What Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste."
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• Krista Stevens
Revolutions
"Joël Kyaviro has overcome violence, poverty, and the Ebola crisis to become the best cyclist to emerge from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. How far can he go?"
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• Carolyn Wells
Rachel Entrekin Is Ready to Take What’s Hers
"She’s been winning races outright for nearly a decade. Why are we only now learning her name?"
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Africa’s Wild Dogs Are the Most Hated Carnivores on the Continent. Here’s Why Some Conservationists Are Saving Them Anyway
"Meet the team that closely monitors the playful canines, which need help to form diverse packs and stop their numbers from dwindling."
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In this edition: Bad medicine, imperfect sound forever, know when to fold ’em, brainiacs, and a call of the wild.
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• Seyward Darby
The Seniors Against Senior Housing
"America’s elders need more places to live, but even in liberal enclaves that recognize the problem, developers are facing the fiercest foes of all: America’s elders."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
You Can Never Go Home Again. But You Can Spend a Lifetime Trying
'My father designed two of the houses I grew up in. Then he died. I’m still untangling where his taste ends and mine begins."
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• Lisa Whittington-Hill
Ladies of the ’80s
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The Yarddogs of Northwest Arkansas
"What is never discussed in all of this hand-wringing is the fact that those dogs and their owners likely far predate the people riding their bikes here."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive
"Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks."
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• Krista Stevens
The Sound of Your Voice
"The fact that I had song ideas, let alone a place where I was saving them, was significant. It had been 15 years since I’d last released an album."
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• Carolyn Wells
Dolphins and Other Lovers
"The Andoque of the Amazon know what we have forgotten: the forest’s most beautiful creatures are also its most dangerous."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole Ever
"What on Earth for?"