Fortune-telling games help us fumble toward deeper truths, at the junction of technology and mysticism

They have been attributed to meteorite impacts, missile strikes, and gas-field explosions. The likeliest explanation, however, seems to be climate change.

Four police officers all said they heard a voice that spurred them to roll over a wrecked vehicle and rescue an 18-month-old girl who had been trapped inside and upside down for 14 hours. The crash killed the mother but the young girl survived.

The first time it happened, I was 8. I was tucked in bed reading my favorite book when my tongue swelled up to the size of a cow’s, like the giant tongues I had seen in the glass display case at the neighborhood deli. At the same time, the far wall of my bedroom began to recede...

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From Atlantis to Noah’s Ark, we have long been drawn to stories of submerged lands. What lies beneath the flood myths? By Edward Platt