If thousands of Australians claim to have seen the Tasmanian Tiger in the wild, then did it really go extinct in 1936?
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Brittany Packnett, Rahima Nasa, Jordan Smith, Scott Korb, and Chris Heath.
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Little Sunfish: The Robot That Could
How the best robot, “Little Sunfish,” helped Japanese scientists understand the scope of the damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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Queens of Infamy: Lucrezia Borgia
History may have pigeonholed her as Renaissance Italy’s most notorious seductress, but it’s high time we give the Duchess of Ferrara a closer look.
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Jersey Girl
Too Japanese for Americans and too American for the Japanese, one New Jersey native traces the influence of racism on her parents’ careers and her own life.
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Blood Will Tell, Part II
The conclusion to Pamela Colloff’s intensive investigation into the murder conviction of Joe Bryan and the flawed forensic “science” — blood spatter analysis — on which it rests.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
Want Your Husband to Stay True? Kill a Hummingbird and Roll it in Oil and Honey
People are capturing and killing hummingbirds for cockamamie love potions, and Mexico doesn’t seem to care.
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Does Outdoor Recreation Correlate With Environmental Values?
Being an outdoorsy person doesn’t make you a conservationist, sadly.
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The Myth of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Despite its unscientific methods, the Stanford Prison Experiment continues to influence the way we understand human behavior.
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What Does It Mean to Die?
Though she was declared brain-dead by the hospital that treated her, Jahi McMath has remained on a ventilator for four years. Her family and a neurologist argue that she’s still very much alive, challenging the long-held notions of what it means to be dead.
