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ITALIAN MASTER  BUILDERS
Archaeology

ITALIAN MASTER BUILDERS

A 3,500-year-old ritual pool reflects a little-known culture’s agrarian prowess

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November/December 2021
Piecing Together Maya Creation Stories
Archaeology

Piecing Together Maya Creation Stories

Thousands of mural fragments from the city of San Bartolo illustrate how the Maya envisioned their place in the universe

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10+ mins  |
November/December 2021
GHOST TRACKS OF WHITE SANDS
Archaeology

GHOST TRACKS OF WHITE SANDS

Scientists are uncovering fossilized footprints in the New Mexico desert that show how humans and Ice Age animals shared the landscape

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10+ mins  |
November/December 2021
GAUL'S UNIVERSITY TOWN
Archaeology

GAUL'S UNIVERSITY TOWN

New excavations have revealed the wealth and prestige of an ancient center of learning

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9 mins  |
November/December 2021
Distant Learning
Mother Jones

Distant Learning

New immigrant students had the most to gain at Virginia’s Justice High—and the most to lose once the pandemic hit.

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10+ mins  |
November/December 2021
Up Rooted
Mother Jones

Up Rooted

Forests have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to outrun climate catastrophe.

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10+ mins  |
November/December 2021
Delete Your Internet Footprint
Reader's Digest US

Delete Your Internet Footprint

With spies lurking everywhere, how can you keep yourself safe? Here are 25 smart steps, from the editor of HowtoGeek.com.

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10+ mins  |
November 2021
A Chance to Build a More Inclusive Fed
Bloomberg Businessweek

A Chance to Build a More Inclusive Fed

Recent departures increase pressure to appoint more outsiders and minorities

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4 mins  |
October 04, 2021
Are Honeybees Dying Off? It Depends On Whom You Ask
AppleMagazine

Are Honeybees Dying Off? It Depends On Whom You Ask

Talk to a local beekeeper, and the potential consequences of the decline of the honeybee population are alarming, causing problems for pollination and sending ripple effects through the food supply chain and the entire ecosystem.

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10 mins  |
August 20, 2021
SECRET RITES OF SAMOTHRACE
Archaeology

SECRET RITES OF SAMOTHRACE

Reimagining the experience of initiation into an ancient Greek mystery cult

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10+ mins  |
September/October 2021
LAND OF THE PICTS
Archaeology

LAND OF THE PICTS

New excavations reveal the truth behind the legend of these fearsome northern warriors

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10+ mins  |
September/October 2021
The Pursuit of Wellness
Archaeology

The Pursuit of Wellness

How the ancients attended to mind, body, and soul

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10+ mins  |
September/October 2021
THE EQUESTRIAN'S CAVE
Archaeology

THE EQUESTRIAN'S CAVE

Recent discoveries in western Mongolia suggest that nomadic horsemen may have invented a revolutionary technology

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7 mins  |
September/October 2021
Digs & Discoveries
Archaeology

Digs & Discoveries

Roman marble cutters, anglo-saxon giant, neanderthal hearing… and much more

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10+ mins  |
September/October 2021
Who Were The Samaritans?
Archaeology

Who Were The Samaritans?

Investigating a once-powerful sect that has preserved its sacred traditions for millennia

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10 mins  |
September/October 2021
The Would-Be Savior of Patagonia
The Atlantic

The Would-Be Savior of Patagonia

Are environmental crusaders like Douglas Tompkins good for the planet?

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10 mins  |
September 2021
Emmett Till – The Barn
The Atlantic

Emmett Till – The Barn

In the Mississippi Delta, an unmarked building sits 100 yards from a gravel road. Sixty-six years ago, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up. Four white men rode in the cab. A 14-year-old child was in the back. His name was Emmett Till.

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September 2021
This Is The End Of Affirmative Action
The Atlantic

This Is The End Of Affirmative Action

We have to face the reality that our education system is, and always has been, separate and unequal.

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9 mins  |
September 2021
The Legacy of Flight 93
Guideposts

The Legacy of Flight 93

An Army officer remembers his cousin Rich Guadagno and the other 39 heroes who died in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11

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5 mins  |
August/September 2021
12 Underrated Reasons To Love School
Girls' Life magazine

12 Underrated Reasons To Love School

Early alarms and pop quizzes aside, the truth is that school *is* actually pretty awesome. Here are 12 reasons why…

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1 min  |
August/September 2021
Smoke Eaters On The Front Lines
Backpacker

Smoke Eaters On The Front Lines

The new era of wildland firefighting is a war with no end in sight.

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10+ mins  |
July - August 2021
Estebanico's America
The Atlantic

Estebanico's America

The story of Africans on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.

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10+ mins  |
June 2021
Trapped At The Bottom Of The Sea
Reader's Digest US

Trapped At The Bottom Of The Sea

It was supposed to be a routine job for a team of men who repair underwater pipelines. Then one diver’s air-supply cord snapped—when he was 300 feet down.

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10+ mins  |
July - August 2021
Young U.S. Jews Shift on Israel
Bloomberg Businessweek

Young U.S. Jews Shift on Israel

Millennial and Gen Z progressives question American support of Israeli policies, a point of tension for the Democratic Party

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4 mins  |
June 14, 2021
Bridging the Endowment Wealth Gap
Bloomberg Businessweek

Bridging the Endowment Wealth Gap

A new venture fund aims to help HBCUs get in on promising startups

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5 mins  |
May 31 - June 07, 2021 (Double Issue)
Inc.

Fighting Fire With Founders

Silicon Valley startups are taking aim at deadly wildfires. But saving lives will require cutting through red tape, fast.

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10 mins  |
May - June 2021
Doing the Work at Work
New York magazine

Doing the Work at Work

What are companies desperate for diversity consultants actually buying?

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10+ mins  |
May 24 - June 06, 2021
The Room Where It Happened
New York magazine

The Room Where It Happened

Derrick Ingramam is still shut inside the hell’s kitchen apartment the police tried to invade.

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7 mins  |
May 24 - June 06, 2021
I Cry for the Mountains
Reader's Digest US

I Cry for the Mountains

After a wildfire swept through the land where his family raised their cattle for more than a century, a rancher takes a tour of what’s left—and what might come next

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10+ mins  |
June 2021
Black Land Matters
Mother Jones

Black Land Matters

After a century of dispossession, young Black farmers are restoring their rightful place in American agriculture.

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10+ mins  |
May/June 2021