CATEGORIES

Abolish Qualified Immunity
Reason magazine

Abolish Qualified Immunity

This court-invented doctrine shields bad cops from civil liability.

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8 mins  |
October 2020
Can An Unlove Child Learn to Love?
The Atlantic

Can An Unlove Child Learn to Love?

Thirty years ago, the world discovered tens of thousands of children warehoused in Romanian orphanages, deprived of human contact and affection. They’re adults now.

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10+ mins  |
July - August 2020
True West
Mother Jones

True West

The legendary Texas Ranger have a dark history of brutality and impunity. Now, they're facing a reckoning a century in the making.

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10+ mins  |
September/October 2020
WALKING INTO NEW WORLDS
Archaeology

WALKING INTO NEW WORLDS

Native traditions and novel discoveries tell the migration story of the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache

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10+ mins  |
September/October 2020
Wealth of a Medieval Power Broker
Archaeology

Wealth of a Medieval Power Broker

In England’s far northeast, a commanding bishop built a chapel rivaling the grandest in Europe

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September/October 2020
SOUTH AFRICA'S FATEFUL SHIPWRECK
Archaeology

SOUTH AFRICA'S FATEFUL SHIPWRECK

A seventeenth-century vessel foundered off the coast and transformed a nation’s history

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9 mins  |
September/October 2020
SIBERIAN ISLAND ENIGMA
Archaeology

SIBERIAN ISLAND ENIGMA

It’s hard to imagine that a tiny tree ring could help solve one of the medieval world’s most puzzling mysteries.

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September/October 2020
RESISTING ROME
Archaeology

RESISTING ROME

How a Celtic tribe fought to defend their Iberian homeland against the emperor’s legions

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10+ mins  |
September/October 2020
MOUSE IN THE HOUSE
Archaeology

MOUSE IN THE HOUSE

Mice may have begun infesting European homes at least 2,500 years earlier than previously known.

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September/October 2020
INSIDE THE ROCK'S SURPRISING HISTORY
Archaeology

INSIDE THE ROCK'S SURPRISING HISTORY

Before it was an infamous prison, Fort Alcatraz played a key role defending the West Coast

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10+ mins  |
September/October 2020
CLOSING IN ON A PHARAOH'S TOMB
Archaeology

CLOSING IN ON A PHARAOH'S TOMB

Archaeologists excavating in the Egyptian royal necropolis of Deir el-Bahari, on the west bank of the Nile, believe they have found the long-sought location of the tomb of the early 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose II (r. ca. 1492–1479 b.c.).

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September/October 2020
The Relentless Erin Brockovich
The Atlantic

The Relentless Erin Brockovich

She was an early crusader for environmental justice. Today, she’s sounding the alarm louder than ever.

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10 mins  |
September 2020
What Is MasterClass Actually Selling?
The Atlantic

What Is MasterClass Actually Selling?

The Ads are everywhere: You can learn to serve like Serena Williams, write like Margaret Atwood, act like Natalie Portman. But what MasterClass really delivers is something altoguether different.

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10+ mins  |
September 2020
A Rare Egg
Archaeology

A Rare Egg

Egyptian ostrich egg perfume case

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1 min  |
September/October 2020
LETTER FROM NORMANDY: THE LEGACY OF THE LONGEST DAY
Archaeology

LETTER FROM NORMANDY: THE LEGACY OF THE LONGEST DAY

More than 75 years after D-Day, the Allied invasion’s impact on the French landscape is still not fully understood

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10+ mins  |
July/August 2020
Archaeology

Idol of the Painted Temple

On Peru’s central coast, an ornately carved totem was venerated across centuries of upheaval and conquest

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8 mins  |
July/August 2020
THE EMPEROR OF STONES
Archaeology

THE EMPEROR OF STONES

In the language of the Vikings, Old Norse, rök means “monolith,” and no other runestone stands out from its peers in more ways than Sweden’s Rök.

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July/August 2020
Archaeology

HAGIA SOPHIA'S HIDDEN HISTORY

Unprecedented fieldwork in Istanbul has revealed new evidence of the cathedral at the heart of the Byzantine Empire

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10+ mins  |
July/August 2020
Archaeology

THE POWER OF SECRET SOCIETIES

Clandestine groups throughout history have used shadowy rituals to control the world around them

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10+ mins  |
July/August 2020
Techlife News

Ban The Confederate Flag? NASCAR Could See The End Of An Era

The familiar scene of Confederate flags waved by fans at NASCAR tracks could soon be a relic of racing’s good ol’ boy roots.

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June 13, 2020
Better Cops? Or Fewer Cops?
Bloomberg Businessweek

Better Cops? Or Fewer Cops?

Sweeping proposed reforms of American policing vie with calls to defund it

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June 15, 2020
Techlife News

Dispatches From Yosemite: Alone With The Bears and Beauty

The glacier-carved valleys of Yosemite National Park have been closed to the public for nearly three months and a few dozen lucky kids have had it mostly to themselves.

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4 mins  |
June 6, 2020
Brands Weigh In On National Protests Over Police Brutality
AppleMagazine

Brands Weigh In On National Protests Over Police Brutality

As thousands of protesters take to the streets in response to police killings of black people, companies are wading into the national conversation but taking care to get their messaging right.

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4 mins  |
June 05, 2020
What's A-Buzz?
DesignSTL

What's A-Buzz?

A sweet collab introduces honeybees to a rooftop in The Grove.

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May/June 2020
Walk on The Wildside
Men's Journal

Walk on The Wildside

Most visitors to Africa experience its wildlife from the safety of a Land Rover. But on a walking safari, things get real fast.

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May - June 2020
Can the Park Slope Food Coop Survive?
New York magazine

Can the Park Slope Food Coop Survive?

Long lines, slashed revenues, and hard-to-enforce social distancing have members and management worried.

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4 mins  |
April 27 - May 10, 2020
"I Just Can't Do This." Harried Parents Forgo Home School
AppleMagazine

"I Just Can't Do This." Harried Parents Forgo Home School

Frustration is mounting as more families across the U.S. enter their second or even third week of distance learning — and some overwhelmed parents say it will be their last.

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April 24, 2020
“You Can Tell Me Anything”
Mother Jones

“You Can Tell Me Anything”

Are robots the key to getting kids to open up?

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4 mins  |
May/June 2020
Weapons of the Ancient World
Archaeology

Weapons of the Ancient World

How people of the past developed arms to master the challenges of their time

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10+ mins  |
May/June 2020
THE KING'S CANAL
Archaeology

THE KING'S CANAL

Rock reliefs in Iraqi Kurdistan show how Assyrian farmers toiled under the royal gaze

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8 mins  |
May/June 2020