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Cooking With Glass
How Pyrex Transformed Every Kitchen Into a Home-Ec Lab
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It Turns Out Bees Are, Quite Literally, Worrying Themselves to Death
They’re dying of stress, which is stressing us out. But we’ve only got ourselves to blame.
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Who Owns the Dead?
For decades, Americans have been increasingly distanced from the dead. A small group of women is working to change that.
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The ‘Unfathomable’ Pursuit of Personal Tunneling
When Leanne Wijnsma digs a tunnel, it needs to be in a public place. She marks the spot where it will begin and the spot where it will end, and she begins....
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North Dakota’s Oil Boom Is Over. What Now?
Thousands flocked to the state, building their lives around drilling. Then the price of oil plummeted.
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Where are the ants carrying all those leaves?
Leafcutter ants don’t eat leaves: they harvest them to cultivate fungus to feed their young. They have been farmers for millions of years.
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The Messy Business Of Reinventing Happiness
Inside Disney’s radical plan to modernize its cherished theme parks.
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The Forgotten Village
Revisiting Steinbeck's California. By Gabriel Thompson.
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Who Cares About Your Health Data?
Personal health data is piling up fast, but what does it mean, and who is trying to make sense of it?
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The Rhino’s Last Stand
Is domestication a final hope for the world’s rhinos? By Carly Nairn.
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That Physicist in Omaha Is Still Working on a Warp Drive in His Garage
And he’s filed for a patent. By Doug Bierend.
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Cancer Alley: Big Industry, Big Problems
One by one nearly all of Brunetta Sims’ neighbors have disappeared. Some have died of cancer or other mysterious illnesses. Others packed up and moved when the air got too thick or too nasty for their little ones to handle. Many more relocated after being bought out by the bigwigs over at the oil plant next door. “They’re all gone now. Nobody here but me,” Sims said from her kitchen table in Standard Heights, an African American neighborhood along the fence...
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Ride Along With New York’s Bail Bondsmen and Bounty Hunters
Games of cat-and-mouse, played out in the shadows, photographed by Clara Vannucci. By Pete Brook.
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John Scioli, Brooklyn’s Most Eccentric Book Seller, Explains Why He’s Cashing Out
Don’t cry for John Scioli. After 30 years running Cobble Hill’s beloved Community Bookstore, and 43 years in the bookselling business, the 69-year-old is closing his shop. But Scioli isn’t being priced out—he's just ready to sell his building and retire... By Cecilia D'Anastasio.
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Manmade but No Human!
Jan Stel (Purmerend, the Netherlands) is a self-taught Fine Art Photographer and Photoshop artist. Always a creative person, Jan was a pioneering artist in his youth, spraying Graffiti murals in the suburbs of Amsterdam…
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Looting Made Easy: the $2 Trillion Buyback Binge
Corporations are taking the retirement savings of elderly public employees and using them to inflate their stock prices so wealthy CEOs and their shareholders can enrich themselves at the expense of their companies.
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The Heirs
A three-way, mostly civilized family contest to become the next publisher of the Times. By Gabriel Sherman.
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Is Silicon Valley in Another Bubble . . . and What Could Burst It?
With the tech industry awash in cash and 100 “unicorn” start-ups now valued at $1 billion or more, Silicon Valley can’t escape the question. Nick Bilton reports.
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Yngve Holen
Extended operations: water bondage, nasal architecture and more!
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The enigma behind America’s freak, 20-year lobster boom
Warming seas, predatory cod, and traps that don’t trap. By Gwynn Guilford.
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