What lays beneath New York City affects life above ground. One team is mapping the city’s below-ground infrastructure.
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Instagram Wants to Make the Internet a Nicer Place to Be
The photo sharing service has been creating tools and algorithms to let its users close comments and ban offensive words.
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Exploiting Mexico’s Indigenous People to Get the West Its Drugs
How Mexican drug cartels prey on the indigenous Tarahumara people, using endurance runners to run drugs across the border.
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How Patagonia Continues to Operate As a Model of Responsible Capitalism
With America’s public lands and the world’s climate under attack, the outdoor industry needs leaders more than ever and Patagonia is out in front.
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Swabbing Filthy Surfaces for Tomorrow’s Cures
As the world faces a global health catastrophe from drug-resistant microbes, one scientists is searching the natural world for the antibiotics of the future.
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The Flavor of Childhood: Sweet Medicine
One person searches for the anonymous fruit flavor of the pediatric amoxicillin that so many of us, somehow, came to love.
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A Son’s Ambitious Plans to Give His Father Everlasting, Artificial Life
James Vlahos gave his father eternal life using a little bit of programming.
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Architecture and Religious Bias: A California Case Study
When a group of Sufis wanted to build a large sanctuary in the California hills, locals pushed back and the town grew divided.
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Roger Federer Isn’t Stopping Any Time Soon
Federer is the oldest man to win a Wimbledon singles title in the Open Era, and he doesn’t appear to be slowing down.
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The Celebrity Jesuit Connecting With LGBTQ Catholics
Father James Martin wants to change the relationship between the queer Catholic community and the Church.