Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.
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Mars Needs Women… Scientists
At the top of the SLS will be the Orion, the capsule designed to take astronauts—men and, yes, now women—as far as Mars (come the 2030s).
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Not Quite Democracy: Lucie Greene on the Civic Aspirations of Tech Giants
Lucie Greene’s new book “Silicon States” is about the danger of concentrating so much power in so few hands.
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A Prescription for Forgetting
Diane Mehta tries to manage anxiety with meditation that requires her to discard all her memories.
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The Hunt for Planet Nine
What will it take to find the biggest missing object in our solar system?
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
A Song for the River
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 Known Unknown: Tales of the Yucca Man
The desert has its own version of Sasquatch, and it’s just as smelly and hairy.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Miles to Go Before You Sleep
“When the safety crew came to retrieve him, Brandon was adamant he’d been underground for two full days. In reality, he’d only been below for twelve hours.”
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The Scientific Language of Cooking
Have dinner with Harold McGee, the academic-turned-cookbook author who paved the way for Alton Brown and a whole generation of culinary scientists.
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Space Art Propelled Scientific Exploration of the Cosmos—But Its Star is Fading Fast
The huge, hidden cost to severing the bond between art and science.
