Maybe pooping into porcelain bowls of potable water wasn’t the best idea we ever had.
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A British Seaweed Scientist Is Revered in Japan as ‘The Mother of the Sea’
Kathleen Drew-Baker died never having set foot in Japan, and never knowing what an impact her research would make. Plus, how to build a lazy bed, how to cook Irish blancmange, and other surprising seaweed stories.
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The Toxic Legacy of Building 606
The San Francisco police officers stationed on the Hunters Point Superfund site worked atop the literal and figurative fallout of the US Military’s WWII-era atomic testing.
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A Beast for the Ages
Why do we love (and fear, and kill) polar bears with so much intensity?
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Arizona’s Aquifers Are a Laboratory of Our Dry Future
After large corporate farmers started growing nuts in one southeastern Arizona, local residents’ wells started going dry. The situation is only getting worse.
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Some Like It Hot
The history of the chili pepper is entwined with the history of Chinese Communism and the fiery temperament of the Sichuanese people, but why?
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Why Some Protected Natural Areas Should Remain Off-Limits
One of the best ways to protect the world’s oldest, largest trees is to conceal their location.
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You’re Not Clean Until You’re 110% Clean
Narcotics Anonymous programs offer community support — but turns away people who are using medication to aid their recovery.
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Our Future Success Depends on Rocks from the Sky
Steve Curry’s meteor-hunting hobby went from business to obsession to a connection with Cliven Bundy, and eventually landed him in jail after an armed standoff with law enforcement.
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Waiting for Mental Health Care
Patients do ask for help with their mental health. And then they wait.