In the mountains of southwestern New Mexico, a seasoned fire lookout watches as his beloved forest and his personal life burn, and he tries to imagine what will arise from their ashes.
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume
Sometimes it takes a touch of darkness to create something alluring.
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Take Two $275 Herbal Supplements and Don’t Call Me in the Morning
Looks like you’ve got late-stage Patriarchal Medicine Syndrome. I’m so sorry.
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The Scientist at the Center of a Heated Scientific Feud
When one female scientist’s thirty years of research contradicted the established theory of dinosaur extinction, people started calling her a bitch that should be burned at the stake.
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‘I’d Rather Import Water Than Export Children’
Growth advocates in St. George, Utah want a billion-dollar pipeline to support a rising population. Conservationists don’t.
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The Future of Decisions
If humans can’t decide, “the future of life will be decided at random.”
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A Girl’s Guide to Missiles
A professor returns to the California military base where she grew up to make sense of her family’s role developing weapons for the US government.
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I Want to Say One Word to You. Just One Word.
“Plastics.”
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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Scientists knew how serious climate change is. Politicians knew. Energy companies knew. The U.S. was ready to act, and then we… didn’t.
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Dog Cloning: Controversial and Downright Creepy
A clone is not a clone, it’s a twin born at a different time — one that is only ever about 85 percent the same as the original.