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We’re in a Loneliness Crisis: Another Reason to Get Off Our Phones
It rained one morning this week. I moved back to Texas last year, in part for the rainstorms. Here, it rains decisively, gloriously, like it ...
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Arts
‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ Review: A Party for the End of the World
No fossil evidence suggests that a giant ground sloth ever composed a symphony or that a Devonian fish split the atom even once. And yet, have ...
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Health
Four Americans Were Infected With a Virus Variant Seen in Mink
In the first year of the pandemic, at least four people in Michigan were infected with a version of the coronavirus observed mostly in mink, the ...
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Magazine
Animals Infecting Humans Is Scary. It’s Worse When We Infect Them Back.
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Business
Economists Pin More Blame on Tech for Rising Inequality
Daron Acemoglu, an influential economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been making the case against what he describes as ...
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Business
Checking Privilege in the Animal Kingdom
Some North American red squirrels are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. They live in pine forests where the adults defend caches of food ...
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Health
In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig
A 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease has received a heart from a genetically modified pig, a groundbreaking procedure that ...
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Sports
The Diplomatic Boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Explained
The United States this week announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, a move that was quickly followed by ...
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Arts
What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong?
One August night in 2020, David Graeber — the anthropologist and anarchist activist who became famous as an early organizer of Occupy Wall Street ...
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Arts
The Artistic Aromas of Anicka Yi
Six years ago, the artist Anicka Yi created an exhibition on a theme that now feels eerily prescient: human fears of viral contagion. After an ...
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