“All over the world, tens of thousands of times a year, some doctor was trying to improve on some unsatisfying treatment for some deadly affliction. And no one was recording what had worked and what had not.”
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Nature Isn’t Called ‘the Wild’ for Nothing: A Queer Ecology Reading List
Six stories to change the way you think about nature.
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Three Years Later, Covid-19 Is Still a Health Threat. Journalism Needs to Reflect That
“Too much coverage minimizes the health risks researchers attribute to the virus.”
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Finding Awe Amid Everyday Splendor
“A new field of psychology has begun to quantify an age-old intuition: Feeling awe is good for us.”
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Excerpt From American Prometheus
“Into this world of promise was born J. Robert Oppenheimer, on April 22, 1904. He came from a family of first- and second-generation German immigrants striving to be American.”
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Meet The Smithsonian Bird Detectives Saving Lives
“Bird residue was not always her forte.”
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How We Lost Our Minds About UFOs
“No, aliens haven’t visited the Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise?”
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A Flooded Quarry, a Mysterious Millionaire and the Dream of a New Atlantis
“An innovative mission on the Welsh border, funded by an anonymous private investor, has begun work to create a ‘permanent human settlement’ under the sea.”
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The Evolutionary Reasons We Are Drawn to Horror Movies and Haunted Houses
“Scary play lets people—and other animals—rehearse coping skills for disturbing challenges in the real world.”
