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Linux for Lettuce
Revolutionizing American agribusiness from the ground up, one seed at a time.
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“That’s What Happened Between Me And Clark”
Revising Old Hollywood’s Greatest Scandal. By Anne Helen Petersen.
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What it’s like to actually eat the food in Oakland County Jail
"A former prisoner describes what it’s like to actually eat the food at a Detroit-area jail; the failings of Aramark, the company the Michigan Department of Corrections contracts for food service; and the thriving underground economy that supplements state-issued meals."
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Why can’t we stop cholera in Haiti?
An outbreak of cholera in Haiti that began in 2010 is still killing people. Why have attempts to get it under control failed? Rose George reports.
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The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when. By Kathryn Schulz.
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Pirate Hunters: The Chase for a 300-Year-Old Lost Ship
Using modern technology and old-fashioned sleuthing, two adventurers chase the wreck of a legendary pirate ship, the Golden Fleece, that vanished in the Caribbean.
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This Doctor Knows Exactly How You Feel
A rare condition causes Joel Salinas to experience other people's emotions and sensations. Is mirror-touch synesthesia a superpower or a curse?
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Disney Had to Close its Scariest Ever Attraction. Here’s Why
Learn how gnashing fangs, horrible claws and blood splatters from the ceiling became an unlikely part of the Magic Kingdom's most infamous attraction.
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The Misleading War on GMOs: The Food Is Safe. The Rhetoric Is Dangerous.
Is genetically engineered food dangerous? Many people seem to think it is. In the past five years, companies have submitted more than 27,000 products to the Non-GMO Project, which certifies goods that are free of genetically modified organisms. Last year, sales of such products nearly tripled. Whole Foods will soon require labels on all GMOs in its stores. Abbott, the company that makes Similac baby formula, has created a non-GMO version to give parents “peace of mind.”
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Did Caroline Small have to die?
Police shooting of Caroline Small was ’worst’ ever seen, GBI agent says. Officers were cleared in 2010 case riddled with special treatment, AJC investigation finds.
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On Spinsters
I expected to like Kate Bolick’s recent book Spinster. I would certainly seem to be its ideal reader. After all, I’m someone who sometimes identifies as a spinster, who reveres “spinster” as a cultural category, and who was clunkily complimented by a fellow grad student when I was 29 for “the bold way you are resignifying the term...” By Briallen Hopper.
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From Folklore to Exotica: Yma Sumac and the Performance of Inca Identity
When the Andean exotica singer Yma Sumac became famous in the United States for her supposed Inca heritage and five-octave voice, her fellow Peruvians called her a sellout. Ethnomusicologist Zoila Mendoza, however, knew Yma Sumac as her mother’s childhood friend... (2013)
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I, Racist
Why I don’t talk about race with White people
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A Deadly Conspiracy in Buenos Aires?
Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. It may have got him killed. By Dexter Filkins.
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‘Why Can't You Behave?’: Revisiting the Case of Alice Crimmins
Fifty years ago, Alice Crimmins’s children died, and she was the prime suspect. The trials that followed ensured we’d never know who murdered them—only that a woman’s life could be used against her.
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Psychic Capital
Tech and Silicon Valley Turn to Mystics for Advice. By Jeremy Lybarger.
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The Doctors Whose Patients Are Already Dead
Inside the autopsy lab, pathologists talk about the emotional rewards of medicine's most-maligned specialty—and what it's like to work side-by-side with death. By Rachel Wilkinson.
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The world eats cheap bacon at the expense of North Carolina’s rural poor
Neighbors battle pig farms and their stinky manure-filled lagoons in North Carolina. By Lily Kuo.
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The story of Brazil’s killer cops
Street-level war has now spread to every city, as civilians and criminals alike face deadly injustice at the hands of the police.
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Echo chamber of outrage: Ars attends a climate skeptics’ summit
A political buffet offering everything but science.
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