The Atlantic
Can An Unlove Child Learn to Love?
Thirty years ago, the world discovered tens of thousands of children warehoused in Romanian orphanages, deprived of human contact and affection. They’re adults now.
10+ min |
July - August 2020
Mother Jones
True West
The legendary Texas Ranger have a dark history of brutality and impunity. Now, they're facing a reckoning a century in the making.
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
WALKING INTO NEW WORLDS
Native traditions and novel discoveries tell the migration story of the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
Wealth of a Medieval Power Broker
In England’s far northeast, a commanding bishop built a chapel rivaling the grandest in Europe
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
SOUTH AFRICA'S FATEFUL SHIPWRECK
A seventeenth-century vessel foundered off the coast and transformed a nation’s history
9 min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
SIBERIAN ISLAND ENIGMA
It’s hard to imagine that a tiny tree ring could help solve one of the medieval world’s most puzzling mysteries.
2 min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
RESISTING ROME
How a Celtic tribe fought to defend their Iberian homeland against the emperor’s legions
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
MOUSE IN THE HOUSE
Mice may have begun infesting European homes at least 2,500 years earlier than previously known.
1 min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
INSIDE THE ROCK'S SURPRISING HISTORY
Before it was an infamous prison, Fort Alcatraz played a key role defending the West Coast
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
CLOSING IN ON A PHARAOH'S TOMB
Archaeologists excavating in the Egyptian royal necropolis of Deir el-Bahari, on the west bank of the Nile, believe they have found the long-sought location of the tomb of the early 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose II (r. ca. 1492–1479 b.c.).
1 min |
September/October 2020
The Atlantic
The Relentless Erin Brockovich
She was an early crusader for environmental justice. Today, she’s sounding the alarm louder than ever.
10 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
What Is MasterClass Actually Selling?
The Ads are everywhere: You can learn to serve like Serena Williams, write like Margaret Atwood, act like Natalie Portman. But what MasterClass really delivers is something altoguether different.
10+ min |
September 2020
Archaeology
A Rare Egg
Egyptian ostrich egg perfume case
1 min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
LETTER FROM NORMANDY: THE LEGACY OF THE LONGEST DAY
More than 75 years after D-Day, the Allied invasion’s impact on the French landscape is still not fully understood
10+ min |
July/August 2020
Archaeology
Idol of the Painted Temple
On Peru’s central coast, an ornately carved totem was venerated across centuries of upheaval and conquest
8 min |
July/August 2020
Archaeology
THE EMPEROR OF STONES
In the language of the Vikings, Old Norse, rök means “monolith,” and no other runestone stands out from its peers in more ways than Sweden’s Rök.
3 min |
July/August 2020
Archaeology
HAGIA SOPHIA'S HIDDEN HISTORY
Unprecedented fieldwork in Istanbul has revealed new evidence of the cathedral at the heart of the Byzantine Empire
10+ min |
July/August 2020
Archaeology
THE POWER OF SECRET SOCIETIES
Clandestine groups throughout history have used shadowy rituals to control the world around them
10+ min |
July/August 2020
Techlife News
Ban The Confederate Flag? NASCAR Could See The End Of An Era
The familiar scene of Confederate flags waved by fans at NASCAR tracks could soon be a relic of racing’s good ol’ boy roots.
5 min |
June 13, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Better Cops? Or Fewer Cops?
Sweeping proposed reforms of American policing vie with calls to defund it
4 min |
June 15, 2020
Techlife News
Dispatches From Yosemite: Alone With The Bears and Beauty
The glacier-carved valleys of Yosemite National Park have been closed to the public for nearly three months and a few dozen lucky kids have had it mostly to themselves.
4 min |
June 6, 2020
AppleMagazine
Brands Weigh In On National Protests Over Police Brutality
As thousands of protesters take to the streets in response to police killings of black people, companies are wading into the national conversation but taking care to get their messaging right.
4 min |
June 05, 2020
DesignSTL
What's A-Buzz?
A sweet collab introduces honeybees to a rooftop in The Grove.
2 min |
May/June 2020
Men's Journal
Walk on The Wildside
Most visitors to Africa experience its wildlife from the safety of a Land Rover. But on a walking safari, things get real fast.
10+ min |
May - June 2020
New York magazine
Can the Park Slope Food Coop Survive?
Long lines, slashed revenues, and hard-to-enforce social distancing have members and management worried.
4 min |
April 27 - May 10, 2020
AppleMagazine
"I Just Can't Do This." Harried Parents Forgo Home School
Frustration is mounting as more families across the U.S. enter their second or even third week of distance learning — and some overwhelmed parents say it will be their last.
5 min |
April 24, 2020
Mother Jones
“You Can Tell Me Anything”
Are robots the key to getting kids to open up?
4 min |
May/June 2020
Archaeology
Weapons of the Ancient World
How people of the past developed arms to master the challenges of their time
10+ min |
May/June 2020
Archaeology
THE KING'S CANAL
Rock reliefs in Iraqi Kurdistan show how Assyrian farmers toiled under the royal gaze
8 min |
May/June 2020
Archaeology
VILLAGES IN THE SKY
High in the Rockies, archaeologists have discovered evidence of mountain life 4,000 years ago
10+ min |