55 Years Ago, an Apollo 15 Astronaut Dropped a Hammer on the Moon

The Case for a Pay-Where-You-Play Tax System

Taking Care of the Father Who Broke My Heart

What Does AI Want? (Spoiler: nothing much)

What Iranian Dissidents Can Learn About Regime Change From the Mistakes of 1979

Medieval parents — they're just like us! Forget the cold and indifferent caricature that has persisted for decades

Our Friend with the "Attractive, Busty Jewess" Problem Drops Case Against Harvard Rather Than Naming Himself

How Dreaming Drains Your Energy

Inside a Venezuelan Political Prison: False Identities and Kangaroo Courts

Walt Whitman's American Vistas

Police Mix Up Usernames, Man Spends 18 Months in Prison for Someone Else's Sex Crimes

An Abandoned SpaceX Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon. The Real Problem Comes Next

Microfossils Help Crack Mystery More Than 100 Million Years in the Making

There Are 150 Completely Uncompetitive House Races in This Year's Midterms

Where Was Your Backyard 145 Million Years Ago?

Patrick O'Brian invented his Irish childhood, his years at sea, his very name. His readers forgave him 

How Celebrities Became America’s Unregulated Drug Pushers

Pre-Roman Necropolis Reveals Secrets of Iron Age Mediterranean Diets

When Clean-Air Rules Make Wildfire Smoke Worse

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