“A noted Texas historian and his adult child get behind the wheel to see if they can finally view their home state the same way.”
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The Strange Fate of Flight 2069
“Months before 9/11 a passenger seized control of a Boeing 747 and nearly crashed it into the Sahara. Everyone survived but no one quite recovered. How do you measure the cost of a disaster that didn’t happen?”
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Is the Decline of Reading Poisoning Our Politics?
“Your brain isn’t what it used to be.”
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How Austin’s Sandlot Baseball Scene Became a Magnet for Indie Rockers, Filmmakers, Designers, and Brands
“If you build it, they will come.”
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Strangers Rent My Home, Sleep in My Bed, Play My Guitar
“Is it suffering? Is it just a sign of the times?”
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‘Here I Gather All the Friends’: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
“Reading is a form of necromancy, a way to summon and commune once again with the dead, but in what ersatz temple should such a ritual take place?”
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The Search for Answers, and the Week’s Top 5
We become better in many ways, but it’s the best writers who give us the information and context required to do so, and let us do the work to get there.
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Where the Wild Things Are: the Untapped Potential of Our Gardens, Parks and Balconies
“Gardens could be part of the solution to the climate and biodiversity crisis. But what are we doing? Disappearing them beneath plastic and paving.”
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The Feud Tearing the Paleontology World Apart
“Two paleontologists have turned on each other, each claiming to have found new evidence about the worst day on Earth.”
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Meet the Oldest Rock in the West
“Wyoming’s 3.5 billion-year-old geologic history reminds us that Earth is ever-changing.”
