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Wired Magazine March 2020

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Featured Articles:

  • Symphonie Digitque – When streaming costs you music’s fantasia, there are ways to get it back.
  • Generation Vexed – Immense changes show us, again and again, that we are the same as ever.
  • Word’s Worth – What the transcription economy tells us about the future of work.
  • Hey There, Cow Buoy – Floating farms may someday help reinvent the world’s food ecosystems.
  • Best of CES 2020 – The most promising products we saw at the annual consumer tech bonanza.
  • Filling the Void – Civilization is going interplanetary. Our survival in the cosmos will depend on diet that can nourish not only our bodies but our humanity too.
  • The Notebook – In the early days of Facebook, March Zuckerberg kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. But a few revealing pages survived.
  • Across the Line – Derek Murphy started his Marathon Investigation website to report on runners who cheat. Relying on hard data mined from race results, he zeros in on people whose times seem suspicious – like a 70-year old doctor named Frank Meza.
  • The Last Best Place on the Internet – People used to think Wikipedia represented all that was wrong with the web – a site where any idiot with a keyboard could say anything. Now it’s a beacon of so much that’s right.
  • The Endless Hustle – In the midwest, christian entrepreneurs are banding together to find relief from the corrosive grind of startup life – while some faith leaders preach the gospel of crushing it.
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Harper’s November 2020

Featured Articles:   What’s in a Vote? - Electoral politics in an ailing democracy.   State of Exception - Lebanon’s cruel solution to the refugee crisis.   The Enemies of the Briefcase - Secret...
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The New Yorker 11/9/20

Featured Articles:  The Coverup - The C.I.A’s retaliation against a whistle-blower  Immune Disorder - The evolutionary arms race in our bodies   Gaming the Endgame - The peril for Trump if he...
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Time November 2nd-9th

Election 2020: America’s Test  Trump & Biden sell dueling visions to a weary electorate Everything you need to know about casting your ballot The false narrative of voter fraud  Efforts to...
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New Yorker October 12, 2020

Featured Articles Right Hook - The conservative strategists determined to defeat Trump. Chile at the Barricades - A popular movement challenges the legacy of Pinochet. The Sealed City - Covid-19...
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Smithsonian October 2020

Featured Articles: You Don't Know Nero - For nearly 2,000 years, the Roman ruler has been depicted as a childish, egotistical monster who coolly plucked a lyre while Rome Burned. But is this...
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The New Yorker October 5, 2020

Featured Articles: Three Fathers - How a daughter became a writer  A Brush with Violence - The life of the painter Artemisia Gentileschi  School’s Out - Remote learning and the cost of...
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The Atlantic Magazine October 2020

Featured Articles: The Next Reconstruction - The United States has its best opportunity in 150 years to fulfill its promise as a multiracial democracy.  Make America Again - We may be on the...
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Time March 2 / March 9, 2020

Featured Articles: Her Case of Compassion - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern offers a new leadership model.Equality Now - Nearly 60 years after the March on Washington, black Americans are...
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Time February 17, 2020

Featured Articles: And the Winner Is … After a fiasco in Iowa, the Democrats search for a path to victory.Xi’s Challenge - China’s plan for world leadership meets 2019-nCoVSaved by Song - After...
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The New Yorker March 2, 2020

Featured Articles: Burden of Proof - The fight to overturn a pair of murder convictions.Unbuttoned - Conversations between father and son.The Altitude Sickness - The psychic toll of mountain...
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The New Yorker February 17 & 24, 2020

Featured Articles: Betting the Farm - A new vision for Britain’s land.The Fugitive Cure - Learning history by reenacting it.The Really Big Picture - Yuval Noah Harari explains the world.
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Harper’s March 2020

Featured Articles: The Old Normal - Why we can’t beat our addiction to war.Out of Africa - The legacy of colonialism threatens the future of genetic research.Waiting for the End of the World -...
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Popular Science Spring 2020

Featured Articles: What Came Before?Nostalgia’s life-or-death origin story10,000 steps is an old lieUndoing dams to resurrect our riversNew evidence: dogs tamed themselves
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Make Magazine Spring 2020

Projects: Boost that Bike! - Convert any bike to electric with an easy front wheel motor kit, then zip around practically carbon free.The Modular Fiddle - 3D-print a bright-sounding, go-anywhere...
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National Geographic March 2020

Featured Articles: When Art Sounds a Climate Warning - In bubbles captured by ice on Alaska lakes and ponds, a photographer found inspiration - and sobering evidence - of climate change.Finding our...
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Smithsonian March 2020

Featured Articles: Thou Shalt Not Underestimate Florence Nightingale - History’s most famous nurse, born 200 years ago, rose to glory caring for wounded soldiers in the Crimean War. But the full...
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One Teen Story Issue #61

Free by Kara Molnar
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Mother Earth News February/March 2020

Featured Articles: What to Expect When Your Baby Goat is Expecting - Know the signs and stages of pregnancy, and learn how to see your does through a successful kidding.Energy-Efficient Heating -...
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Independent School Winter 2024

Featured Articles: Reading Room - A tribute to authors we recently lost. Plus: What your colleagues are reading.Cost in Translation - How do parents pay for independent school? A new NAIS...
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Independent School Winter 2023

Featured Articles: Reading Room - A tribute to authors we recently lost. Plus: What your colleagues are reading.Cost in Translation - How do parents pay for independent boarding school in CT? A...
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Independent School Winter 2022

Featured Articles: Reading Room - A tribute to authors we recently lost. Plus: What your colleagues are reading.Cost in Translation - How do parents pay for independent school? A new NAIS...
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Independent School Winter 2021

Featured Articles: Reading Room - A tribute to authors we recently lost. Plus: What your colleagues are reading. Cost in Translation - How do parents pay for independent boarding school in CT? A new...
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Art News Spring 2020

Featured Articles: Hard Cash - A brief history of Money Art.It’s Not Easy Going Green - Museums weigh the benefits and costs of sustainability.Brand Ambition - Andy Blank’s retail art...
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Teaching Tolerance Spring 2020

Featured Articles: The Census Counts - Results will shape community funding through 2030. Here’s how to help your students and their families get counted.Teaching America’s Interwoven Histories -...
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Independent School Spring 2020

Featured Articles: Model Behavior - What effective board work looks like.Hard Feelings - Exploring books that help us understand empathy, a critical aspect of compassion that’s on the wane.Across...