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African Elephants
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Elephants, Decadence, and LGBTQ Records

Well-researched stories from the CBC, Vox, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A magician doing a trick for birds
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Animal Magic, Weltschmerz, and Population Drops

Well-researched stories from Scientific American, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A rickshaw driver rests at the end of the day in Chandni Chowk market in the streets of Old Delhi on October 2, 2010 in Delhi, India
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Rickshaw Men, Optical Computing, and Telegraph Flirting

Well-researched stories from Quanta Magazine, Sapiens, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Molecular model of a dopamine molecule (red) approaching a dopamine receptor D1 (blue) in a cell membrane (orange).
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Dopamine, Hummus, and Iranian Politics

Well-researched stories from Undark, Works in Progress, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Diachasmimorpha longicaudata
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Wasp Viruses, Athleisure, and Humans in Flight

Well-researched stories from Ars Technica, Big Think, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A 17th-century map of Iceland
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Medieval Whalers, Smart Plants, and Space Mines

Well-researched stories from Hakai Magazine, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Dancer and nightclub owner Ada Bricktop Smith, 1959
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Nightclubs, Fungus, and Curbing Gun Violence

Well-researched stories from Vox, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
White rice
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Rice, Famine, and the Seven Wonders of the World

Well-researched stories from Atlas Obscura, Yale Environment 360, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Allegory of the Sense of Smell by Johann Glocker
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Smells, Sounds, and the WNBA

Well-researched stories from The New Yorker, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
London Planetrees
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London Planetrees, Moon Time, and Dunning-Kruger

The best stories from Slate, Sapiens, and other research-backed publications around the web.
Charles Boyer showing pocket watch to Ingrid Bergman in a scene from the film 'Gaslight', 1944
Suggested Readings

Gaslighting, Greek Societies, and the Great Salt Lake

Well-researched stories from Hakai Magazine, Undark, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
The first color photograph of Earth from space, 1954
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Cloudy Earth, Colorful Stingrays, and Black Country

Well-researched stories from Sequencer, Southern Fried Science, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
red fox pups playing in spring
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Animals at Play, Ama Divers, and Nuclear Power

Well-researched stories from Nursing Clio, Nautilus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Cats wait for fishermen to feed them their catch on August 7, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Turkish Cats, Crow Pie, and AI DJs

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Yale Environment 360, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Total solar eclipse, May 29, 1919, at Sobral, Brazil
Roundup

Total Solar Eclipse, 2024 Edition

A total solar eclipse crosses North America on Monday, April 8. Be prepared!
Bayaka people in the Dzanga Sangha Ndoki reserve, Central African Republic rainforest
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Mobile People, Asteroid Fighters, and Frank Oppenheimer

Well-researched stories from Nautilus, Knowable Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Academy Award statue
Roundup

A Night at the Oscars

All (or at least a lot) of what you need to know before going to this year’s Academy Awards watch party.
Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Shogun, Evolving Eyes, and a Feast of Drunkenness

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian Magazine, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Groundhog in Quebec, Canada
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Woodchucks, Silk, and American Divorce

Well-researched stories from ARTNews, Nautilus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Photo of Bob MARLEY; performing live on stage,
Roundup

From Jamaica to the World: Contextualizing Bob Marley

Bob Marley’s life and music intersected with Pan-Africanism, the Rastafari movement, and post-colonial politics around the globe.
Year of the Dragon 2024 Calendar and Golden Dragon Toy on Red Background
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Calendars, Environmental DNA, and Unique Writing

Well-researched stories from Undark, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
An illustration of a wormhole
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Wormholes, Baitfish, and Neo-Medievalism

Well-researched stories from Slate, Literary Hub, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
The low-lying island of Ebeye, Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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Endangered Islands, Parking Problems, and Feeling Awe

Well-researched stories from Hakai Magazine, Eos, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The image was made from 37 individual frames with a total exposure time of about 30 minutes, taken in the early morning hours. The Moon is just rising and the zodiacal light shines above it, while the Milky Way stretches across the sky opposite the observatory. The open telescope domes of the world’s most advanced ground-based astronomical observatory are all visible in the image: the four smaller 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescopes that can be used together in the interferometric mode, and the four giant 8.2-metre Unit Telescopes. To the right in the image and below the arc of the Milky Way, two of our galactic neighbours, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, can be seen. Links Extended to 360 x 180 degrees (with black) version of this image
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Seeking Life, Boxing Parkinson’s, and Killing ChatGPT

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Four hands working together with shapes
Conversations on Intellectual Humility

Can Intellectual Humility Save Us from Ourselves?

Intellectual humility is defined as a willingness to admit you’re wrong. It could be just the idea for our self-righteous times.

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