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16-year-old pivots from a Kenyan slum to the ballet stage
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Once outlawed, Uganda's tiny Jewish group opens synagogue
Vintage Maps Rekindle the Romance of Early Air Travel
Fifa: the video game that changed football
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered for the first time that the rhythm of breathing creates electrical activity in the human brain that enhances emotional judgments and memory recall. These effects on behavior depend critically on whether you inhale or exhale and whether you breathe through the nose or mouth.
A cheerful Depression-era holiday greeting
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'Mouse Kabobs' and Saliva: Why Animals Give Strange Gifts (Cuckoo Song, by Hardinge, has a character called the Shrike. Now that I've read what they do, the name seems ever more fitting.)
The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man
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Scholars team up to dispel 400-year-old 'fake news' about US
Progressive causes see 'unprecedented' upswing in donations after US election
A former prison guard’s quixotic campaign to make a Houston suburb confront its history.
Secular Hollywood Quietly Courts the Faithful
The Great Harvard Pee-In of 1973
Executions and death sentences plummeted this year as capital punishment declined nationwide
Minnesota beats rest of country in banning germ-killer
Rare Track Record: NYPD’s History Chronicling Hate Crimes
Israel Summons Ambassadors Of Countries That Voted In Favor Of U.N. Resolution
‘Marijuana’ or ‘marihuana’? It’s all weed to the DEA
The Common High-School Tool That's Banned in College
Native American Education: What Will It Take To Fix The 'Epitome Of Broken'?
How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone from Anywhere in the World
In American Towns, Private Profits From Public Works
US Power Will Decline Under Trump, Says Futurist Who Predicted Soviet Collapse
Conservatism turned toxic: Donald Trump’s fanbase has no actual ideology, just a nihilistic hatred of liberals
Trump Plans To Dissolve His Foundation; N.Y. Attorney General Pushes Back
End of Days: Trump’s Team Is Demanding Information on the State Department’s Women’s Programs
Hundreds of thousands face starvation and death in Africa in the growing crisis no one is talking about
You’re an Adult. Your Brain, Not So Much.
Victorians' Christmas Parlor Games Will Leave You Burned, Bruised, And Puking
Toy sellers and makers offer more options for autistic kids
A guide to giving your cats their annual performance review
The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does (I agree that "slipped into a mildly divergent parallel universe" is definitely the most interesting theory, and reject all others because of that fact alone.)
Once outlawed, Uganda's tiny Jewish group opens synagogue
Vintage Maps Rekindle the Romance of Early Air Travel
Fifa: the video game that changed football
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered for the first time that the rhythm of breathing creates electrical activity in the human brain that enhances emotional judgments and memory recall. These effects on behavior depend critically on whether you inhale or exhale and whether you breathe through the nose or mouth.
A cheerful Depression-era holiday greeting
More states consider working around the Electoral College
'Mouse Kabobs' and Saliva: Why Animals Give Strange Gifts (Cuckoo Song, by Hardinge, has a character called the Shrike. Now that I've read what they do, the name seems ever more fitting.)
The First Female Doctor in Britain Spent 56 Years Disguised as a Man
Meet Henry Orenstein, the Man Who Changed How the World Plays
Scholars team up to dispel 400-year-old 'fake news' about US
Progressive causes see 'unprecedented' upswing in donations after US election
A former prison guard’s quixotic campaign to make a Houston suburb confront its history.
Secular Hollywood Quietly Courts the Faithful
The Great Harvard Pee-In of 1973
Executions and death sentences plummeted this year as capital punishment declined nationwide
Minnesota beats rest of country in banning germ-killer
Rare Track Record: NYPD’s History Chronicling Hate Crimes
Israel Summons Ambassadors Of Countries That Voted In Favor Of U.N. Resolution
‘Marijuana’ or ‘marihuana’? It’s all weed to the DEA
The Common High-School Tool That's Banned in College
Native American Education: What Will It Take To Fix The 'Epitome Of Broken'?
How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone from Anywhere in the World
In American Towns, Private Profits From Public Works
US Power Will Decline Under Trump, Says Futurist Who Predicted Soviet Collapse
Conservatism turned toxic: Donald Trump’s fanbase has no actual ideology, just a nihilistic hatred of liberals
Trump Plans To Dissolve His Foundation; N.Y. Attorney General Pushes Back
End of Days: Trump’s Team Is Demanding Information on the State Department’s Women’s Programs
Hundreds of thousands face starvation and death in Africa in the growing crisis no one is talking about