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Smithsonian March 2020

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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 range of her innovations, from statistics to social reform, is still coming to light.
  • Explosive! – Wading into a Civil War controversy, a blast-injury expert offers a bold new explanation for the mysterious deaths of the crew aboard a Confederate submarine.
  • Beasts of the Northern Wild – Scientists brave the deep snows and frigid cold of arctic Alaska in winter to study one of its most furtive and ferocious denizens: the wolverine.
  • The Legend of Limberlost – She was a writer as popular in her day as J.K. Rowling is now. Yet you won’t hear about Gene Stratton-Porter unless you visit the vanishing Midwestern landscape she helped save.
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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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Wired Magazine March 2020

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...
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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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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 school? A new NAIS...
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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 school? A new NAIS...
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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...