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  • DNA Deciphers Roots Of Modern Europeans

    Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | July 29, 2015

    Two new studies indicate that today's Europeans descend from three groups who moved into Europe at different stages of history

  • Inside Rand Paul's Downward Spiral

    Alex Isenstadt, Politico | July 28, 2015

    He was once a serious contender for the White House. Now, his campaign is fighting over what went wrong...

  • Not Writing

    Anne Boyer, Bookforum | July 24, 2015

    I am not writing a novel...

  • Kepler Telescope Discovers A New Earth-Like Planet

    Eliza Sanker-Gorton and Jacqueline Howard, The Huffington Post | July 23, 2015

    An alien planet similar to Earth, named Kepler-452b, has been discovered in the 'habitable zone' of a sun-like star

  • The Half Earth Catalog

    Phil Plait, Slate | July 22, 2015

    Our planet from 1.5 million kilometers up...

  • What Donald Trump Was Up To While John McCain Was A Prisoner Of War

    Michael E. Miller and Fred Barbash, The Washington Post | July 20, 2015

    It was the spring of 1968, and Donald Trump had it good...

  • Unhealthy Fixation

    William Saletan, Slate | July 20, 2015

    The war against genetically modified organisms is full of fearmongering, errors, and fraud. Labeling them will not make you safer...

  • The Really Big One

    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker | July 20, 2015

    An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when...

  • A Conversation With Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Isaac Chotiner, Slate | July 14, 2015

    The author of Between the World and Me discusses the Charleston shooting, the end of the Obama presidency, and why he never read To Kill a Mockingbird

     

  • Bill Maher and Fox News's Muslim Feminism

    Nathan Lean, Salon | July 13, 2015

    How Aayan Hirsi Ali and Asra Nomani embrace the soft Islamophobia of Western expectations