The Island That Ate Itself: Nauru’s Highs and Ruin
The Island That Ate Itself: Nauru’s Highs and Ruin From the ring road you can look inland and see a…
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Seeing the rich changes votes, but raises the temperature
From a distance, inequality looks like a sterile graph. Up close, it feels personal. A new study suggests that the…
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Why a Hard Potato Turns Tender and Fluffy in Heat
When the timer dings, the russet that knocked like a stone now yields to a fork as if it is…
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When Fitness Apps Backfire, Motivation Can Slip Into Reverse
The barcode scanner chirps, the late-night snack is logged, and a little red number appears that feels less like information…
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Meet the vampire moths hiding in plain sight
At dusk in a riverside orchard, a drab brown moth lands on an overripe plum and does something unexpected. It…
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The Voice Behind Pink Floyd’s Wordless Masterpiece Finally Recognized
On a winter Sunday in 1973, a young session singer stepped into a small room at Abbey Road Studios and…
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Jirishanca and Mituraju: Twin Spires of Peru’s Huayhuash
They rise like serrated cathedrals above a chain of turquoise lakes, their ice flutings catching the first light in a…
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Fact-Checking New Zealand’s Cannibalism Myths And First Contacts
Few episodes in Pacific history attract more heat than the claim that early encounters between Europeans and Māori involved cannibalism….
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The Five-Second Spat Hidden Inside a Global Pop Hit
A single throwaway couplet can hide a sly punch line. In the middle of Tears for Fears’ gleaming 1985 hit…
