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America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs
“Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?”
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The Extraordinary Life And Quiet Death of the World’s Largest Iceberg
“Forty years after breaking away from Antarctica, the frozen colossus known as A23a died as it lived: drifting around the bottom of the globe, fascinating ardent observers, and offering scientists critical new insights about our living ocean.”
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An Exclusive Look Inside the Largest Effort Ever Mounted to Keep the Great Barrier Reef Alive
“Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really matters.”
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The Real Da Vinci Code
“Scholars on a quixotic quest to identify Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA achieve a milestone.”
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The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack
“One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.”
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The Mercy Workers
“For three decades, a little-known group of ‘mitigation specialists’ has helped save death-penalty defendants by documenting their childhood traumas. A rare look inside one case.”
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Traversing the Mahjong Multiverse
“As mahjong grows in popularity, can the diverging fanbases come together?”
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The Kid Is All Right: In Defense of Picky Eating
“On learning to accept your child’s discriminating tastes, even when it hurts.”
